By:  Lindsay                                          S.B. No. 1060
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the transferability of appropriations and the
 1-3     suspension of statutory restrictions on the use of certain
 1-4     appropriations made to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
 1-5     Commission.
 1-6           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-7           SECTION 1.  Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended by adding
 1-8     Section 5.707 to read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. 5.707.  TRANSFERABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS AND FUNDS
1-10     DERIVED FROM FEES.  Notwithstanding any law that provides specific
1-11     purposes for which a fund, account, or revenue source may be used
1-12     and expended by the commission and that restricts the use of
1-13     revenues and balances by the commission, the commission may
1-14     transfer a percentage of appropriations from one appropriation item
1-15     to another appropriation item consistent with the General
1-16     Appropriations Act for any biennium authorizing the commission to
1-17     transfer a percentage of appropriations from one appropriation item
1-18     to another appropriation item.  The use of funds in dedicated
1-19     accounts under this section for purposes in addition to those
1-20     provided by statutes restricting their use may not exceed seven
1-21     percent or $20 million, whichever is less, of appropriations to the
1-22     commission in the General Appropriations Act for any biennium.  A
1-23     transfer of $500,000 or more from one appropriation item to another
1-24     appropriation item under this section must be approved by the
1-25     commission at an open meeting subject to Chapter 551, Government
 2-1     Code.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
 2-3                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-4           Amend S.B. No. 1060 in SECTION 1 of the bill, at the end of
 2-5     added Section 5.707, Water Code (Senate Engrossment page 2, line
 2-6     1), by adding the following:
 2-7     The commission shall notify the governor and the Legislative Budget
 2-8     Board of any decision to reallocate funds between accounts prior to
 2-9     any such reallocations.
2-10                                                                    Luna