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Amend Amendment No. 32 to CSHB 1 by Naishtat (amendment
package page 22) as follows:
(1) Strike item (1) of the amendment and substitute:
(1) On page I-50, Trusteed Programs Within the Office of the
Governor, strike Strategy A.1.2. Disaster Funds and the
appropriation of general revenue in the amount of $7,000,000 in
Fiscal Year 2004 and U.B. in Fiscal Year 2005 and renumber the
remaining strategies accordingly.
(2) On page I-52, Trusteed Programs Within the Office of the
Governor, add the following section and renumber the remaining
sections accordingly:
"Sec. _____. Disaster Assistance. Notwithstanding other
limitations on transfers of funds contained in this act, the
governor is authorized to transfer funds between agencies and
between strategies within an agency in order to respond immediately
to events for which the governor has declared a State of Disaster by
executive order or proclamation. A detailed list of the agencies
and strategies from which funds are transferred under the authority
of this rider shall be provided to the Legislative Budget Board and
the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
(3) On page I-49, Office of the Governor, strike Section 5,
Unexpended Balances Between Biennia, and renumber the remaining
sections accordingly.
(4) On page I-53, Historical Commission, reduce the
appropriation for Strategy A.1.2. Preservation Trust Fund by
$2,500,000 in general revenue for Fiscal Year 2004 and on page I-55,
strike everything between the words "7. Preservation Trust Fund"
and the words "Included in the amounts appropriated above".
(5) On page I-53, Historical Commission, reduce the general
revenue appropriation in Strategy A.1.5. Courthouse Preservation
by $13,300,000 in Fiscal Year 2004.
(6) On page I-62, Department of Information Resources,
reduce the general revenue appropriation for the biennium by
$2,908,275 and on page I-66, Section 9, strike the last sentence
which reads "Included in the amounts appropriated above is
$2,908,275 in General Revenue Funds in this account for the
purposes set forth above."
(7) On page I-79, Office of State-Federal Relations, reduce
the general revenue appropriation for Goal A: Influence Federal
Action by $180,000 in each year of the biennium.
(8) Reduce the appropriation to the Soil and Water
Conservation Board in Strategy A.1.2. Brush Control Assistance
(page VI-42) by $5,000,000 in the state fiscal year ending August
31, 2004, and by $5,000,000 in the state fiscal year ending August
31, 2005.
(9) Following the Article X appropriations to the House of
Representatives, Strike Rider No. 3 (page X-2).
(10) Following the Article X appropriations to the Texas
Legislative Council, in Rider No. 2 (page X-4), strike "Any
unexpended balances in the appropriations account of the
Legislative Council as of August 31, 2004, are hereby appropriated
to the Legislative Council for the fiscal year beginning September
1, 2004."
(2) Strike item (2) of the amendment and substitute:
(2) Following the Article II appropriations to the Health
and Human Services Commission add the following appropriately
numbered rider:
_____. MEDICALLY NEEDY ADULTS. The amount of $60,800,000 is
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Health and Human
Services Commission to restore the medically needy adults program
for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2005.