Amend CSHB 1365, committee printing, by deleting Section 12,
page 3 line 37, and substituting the following:
SECTION 12. Section 386.252, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 386.252. USE OF FUND. (a) Money in the fund may be
used only to implement and administer programs established under
the plan and shall be allocated as follows:
(1) for the diesel emissions reduction incentive
program, 87.5 [72] percent of the money in the fund, of which not
more than [three percent may be used for infrastructure projects
and not more than] 10 percent may be used for on-road diesel
purchase or lease incentives;
(2) [for the motor vehicle purchase or lease
incentive program, 15 percent of the money in the fund;
[(3) for the energy efficiency grant program, 7.5
percent of the money in the fund;
[(4)] for the new technology research and development
program, 9.5 [7.5] percent of the money in the fund, of which up to
$250,000 is allocated for administration, up to $200,000 is
allocated for a health effects study, [and] $500,000 is to be
deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the clean air
account created under Section 382.0622 to supplement funding for
air quality planning activities in affected counties, and not less
than 20 percent is to be allocated each year to support research
related to air quality for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria and
Dallas-Fort Worth nonattainment areas by a nonprofit organization
based in Houston.
(3) [(5)] for administrative costs incurred by [the
utility commission,] the commission[, the comptroller,] and the
laboratory, three percent.
(b) Up to 25 [15] percent of the money allocated under
Subsection (a) to a particular program and not expended under that
program by January [March] 1 of the second fiscal year of a fiscal
biennium may be used for another program under the plan as
determined by the commission in consultation with the advisory
board.