Amend on third reading Floor Amendment No. 3 adopted on
second reading by amending CSHB 2292 by striking SECTION 2.33 of the
bill, (Senate committee printing, page 40, lines 20-35), and
substitute the following:
SECTION 2.33. (a) Effective September 1, 2003, Section
466.408(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize
money shall be used in the following order of priority:
(1) subject to legislative appropriation, not more
than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to or
appropriated from the Texas Department of Health state-owned
mulitcategorical teaching hospital account, which is an account in
the general revenue fund; and
(2) all prize money subject to this section and not
appropriated from the Texas Department of Health state-owned
multicategorical teaching hospital account shall be deposited in
the general revenue fund and may be appropriated for any purpose as
determined by the legislature, including purposes specified in
Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code [shall be deposited to the credit
of the Texas Department of Health state-owned mulitcategorical
teaching hospital account or the tertiary care facility account as
follows:
[(1) not more than $40 million in prize money each
biennium may be deposited to or appropriated from the Texas
Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching
hospital account, which is an account in the general revenue fund;
and
[(2) all prize money subject to this section in
excess of $40 million each biennium shall be deposited in the
tertiary care facility account. Money deposited in the tertiary
care facility account may only be appropriated to the department
for purposes specified in Chapter 46 or 61, Health and Safety Code].