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.