Amend CSHB 1218 by adding the following appropriately
numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering existing SECTIONS of
the bill appropriately:
SECTION ___. Section 2, Self-Directed Semi-Independent
Agency Project Act (Article 8930, Revised Statutes), is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 2. AGENCY PARTICIPATION. The Texas State Board of
Public Accountancy [following agencies] shall be the only state
agency that is part of the pilot project created by this Act[:
[(1) the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy;
[(2) the Texas Board of Professional Engineers; and
[(3) the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners].
SECTION ___. Section 4(c), Self-Directed Semi-Independent
Agency Project Act (Article 8930, Revised Statutes), is amended to
read as follows:
(c) This Act is subject to Chapter 325, Government Code
(Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by
that chapter, this Act expires September 1, 2009 [2003].
SECTION ___. Section 6(c), Self-Directed Semi-Independent
Agency Project Act (Article 8930, Revised Statutes), is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy shall
annually remit $500,000 to the general revenue fund[, the Texas
Board of Professional Engineers shall annually remit $50,000 to the
general revenue fund, and the Texas Board of Architectural
Examiners shall annually remit $700,000 to the general revenue
fund].
SECTION ___. Section 15(b), Self-Directed Semi-Independent
Agency Project Act (Article 8930, Revised Statutes), is amended to
read as follows:
(b) If a state agency no longer has status under this Act as
a self-directed semi-independent project agency either because of
the expiration of this Act or for any other reason, ownership of any
property or other asset acquired by the agency during the time the
agency participated in the pilot project, including unexpended and
unobligated money [fees] in a deposit account in the Texas Treasury
Safekeeping Trust Company, shall be transferred to the state.
SECTION ___. (a) On the effective date of this Act, the
Texas Board of Professional Engineers and the Texas Board of
Architectural Examiners are no longer self-directed
semi-independent project agencies under the Self-Directed
Semi-Independent Agency Project Act (Article 8930, Revised
Statutes).
(b) The change in law made by this Act does not affect the
obligation of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and the
Texas Board of Architectural Examiners to remit money to the
general revenue fund for the state fiscal year ending August 31,
2003, under Section 6(c), Self-Directed Semi-Independent Agency
Project Act (Article 8930, Revised Statutes), as that law existed
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.