By Mowery                                             H.B. No. 2181
       74R6797 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the funds of the Lower Colorado River Authority.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Lower Colorado River Authority Act (Article
    1-5  8280-107, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 26 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 26.  (a)  On and after September 1, 1995, the district
    1-8  shall submit budget requests and reports in the manner required by
    1-9  the Legislative Budget Board for a state agency under the General
   1-10  Appropriations Act.
   1-11        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, on
   1-12  and after September 1, 1997, all money received by the district
   1-13  under this Act shall be deposited to the state treasury to the
   1-14  credit of the general revenue fund.
   1-15        (c)  Money deposited under Subsection (b) of this section may
   1-16  be appropriated only to the district for the purposes of
   1-17  administering the district's powers and duties under this Act.
   1-18        (d)  Any money that is required to be deposited to a special
   1-19  account under this Act or that may be used only for a specified
   1-20  purpose under this Act shall be deposited to a segregated account
   1-21  in the general revenue fund, and may be used only for the purpose
   1-22  specified by this Act.
   1-23        (e)  Sections 403.094 and 403.095, Government Code, do not
   1-24  apply to money deposited to the general revenue fund under
    2-1  Subsection (b) or (d) of this section.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.