SRC-TBR S.B. 1060 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1060
77R8783 TBy: Lindsay
Finance
3/20/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The legislature has acknowledged the need for agencies to respond to
changing priorities by allowing, through an Article IX rider, the transfer
of up to 25 percent of an agency's appropriations from one strategy to
another.  However, the statutory restrictions placed on the various fees
assessed by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) do
not allow the agency to avail itself of the flexibility provided under the
appropriations transferability provisions.  As proposed, S.B. 1060 provides
that the reallocation of funds would not be subject to the statutory
limitations on the uses of the funds by the TNRCC 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Chapter 5F, Water Code, by adding Section 5.2351, as
follows: 

Section 5.2351.  TRANSFERABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS.  Provides that any law
that provides specific purposes for which a fund, account, or revenue
source may be used and expended and that restricts the use of revenues and
balances is suspended to the extent that it conflicts with any provisions
and the intent of appropriations made in the General Appropriations Act for
any biennium authorizing the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
(commission) to transfer a percentage of appropriations from one
appropriation item to another appropriation item. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2001.