By:  Heflin (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                            H.B. No. 12 
	(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 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.



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