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                                                                  H.B. No. 29 




AN ACT

relating to appropriating amounts received from the increase in the 
amount of lobby registration fees under Chapter 249, Acts of the 
78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  (a)  The additional revenue generated by the 
increase in the amount of lobby registration fees under Section 
305.0064, Government Code, as added by Chapter 249, Acts of the 78th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, collected during the state 
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, by the Texas Ethics 
Commission is appropriated, in an amount not to exceed $267,400, to 
the Texas Ethics Commission for the state fiscal biennium beginning 
September 1, 2003, for the development and implementation of the 
electronic filing system for lobbyists, as required by Section 
305.0064.
	(b)  Any increase in state employee benefit costs incurred 
during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2003, in 
connection with administering Section 305.0064, Government Code, 
as added by Chapter 249, 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 immediately 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 for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 29 was passed by the House on 
September 17, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 125, Nays 0, 1 
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. 29 was passed by the Senate on 
September 24, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; 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. 29, 3rd 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