By: Heflin (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 11
(In the Senate - Received from the House July 11, 2003;
July 14, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on
Finance; July 16, 2003, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 12, Nays 0; July 16, 2003, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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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