Floor Packet Page No. 71
      Amend CSHB 1 in Article XI by adding the following
appropriately numbered rider (on page XI-78) after the
appropriations to the Texas Water Development Board:
      Contingency Appropriation for HB 1260.  Contingent upon the
enactment of HB 1260, or similar legislation relating to loans to
disadvantaged communities for water or sewer service, by the
Seventy-sixth Legislature, Regular Session, the Texas Water
Development Board is hereby appropriated $3,000,000 in general
revenue for the biennium ending August 31, 2001 to buy down the
interest rate on loans to disadvantaged communities for water
supply or sewer services under Subchapter M, Chapter 17 of the
Texas Water Code.  The Texas Water Development Board is hereby
authorized to transfer the appropriation made pursuant to this
provision to the appropriate strategy items listed above.