H.B. No. 11 




AN ACT

relating to appropriating the amounts deposited to the credit of 
the dry cleaning facility release fund created by House Bill No. 
1366, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, to the 
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  (a)  All amounts deposited during the state 
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, to the credit of the 
dry cleaning facility release fund created by Chapter 374, Health 
and Safety Code, as added by House Bill No. 1366, Acts of the 78th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, are appropriated to the Texas 
Commission on Environmental Quality for the state fiscal biennium 
beginning September 1, 2003, for the purpose of administering 
Chapter 374, subject to the limitations prescribed by Chapter 374 
or otherwise prescribed by House Bill No. 1366.
	(b)  Any increase in state employee benefit costs incurred 
during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, in 
connection with administering Chapter 374, Health and Safety Code, 
as added by House Bill No. 1366, Acts of the 78th Legislature, 
Regular Session, 2003, shall be paid out of the appropriations made 
by Subsection (a) of this section and shall be allocated to the 
appropriate employee benefit appropriation items in accordance 
with applicable rules of the comptroller.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary to take effect on 
that date, this Act takes effect November 1, 2003.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 11 was passed by the House on July 10, 
2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; passed subject to the provisions of Article III, Section 
49a, of the Constitution of the State of Texas.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 11 was passed by the Senate on July 
18, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 1; passed subject to 
the provisions of Article III, Section 49a, of the Constitution of 
the State of Texas.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                      Secretary of the Senate   


	
I certify that the amounts appropriated in the herein H.B. 
No. 11, 1st Called Session of the 78th Legislature, are within 
amounts estimated to be available in the affected fund.

                                                  Certified_____________________

                                                  ______________________________
                                                 Comptroller of Public Accounts 



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              Governor