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78S10276 JRD-D
By: Heflin H.B. No. 12
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 12:
By: Heflin C.S.H.B. No. 12
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to appropriating the fees collected by the Texas Animal
Health Commission under House Bill No. 2328, Acts of the 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) All fees collected during the state fiscal
biennium beginning September 1, 2003, by the Texas Animal Health
Commission under Section 161.0411, Agriculture Code, as added by
House Bill No. 2328, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session,
2003, are appropriated to the Texas Animal Health Commission for
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, for the
purpose of administering Section 161.0411.
(b) Any increase in state employee benefit costs incurred
during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, in
connection with administering Section 161.0411, Agriculture Code,
as added by House Bill No. 2328, 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.