Amend HB 12 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTIONS and renumbering the SECTIONS of the bill as appropriate:
	SECTION ____.  The Research and Oversight Council on 
Workers' Compensation, including the council's board of directors, 
is abolished on the effective date of this Act.  All state records 
and other property and unexpended and unobligated appropriations of 
the council on the effective date of this Act are transferred to the 
Legislative Budget Board.  All employees of the Research and 
Oversight Council on Workers' Compensation become employees of the 
Legislative Budget Board on the effective date of this Act.  Any 
reference in law to the Research and Oversight Council on Workers' 
Compensation, the council's board of directors, the Texas Workers' 
Compensation Research Center, or the research center's board means 
the Legislative Budget Board.
	SECTION ____.  (a)  For each fiscal year of the state fiscal 
biennium beginning September 1, 2003, the amount of $832,396 is 
allocated to the Legislative Budget Board for the purpose of 
performing Workers' Compensation Research duties under Chapter 
322, Government Code.