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Amend SB 277 on third reading by striking the sections of the 
bill added by Item (9) of Amendment No. 4 by Smith (page 2, line 22, 
through page 3, line 23, of the amendment) and by  inserting the 
following SECTIONS, appropriately numbered:
	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 Board of 
Professional Engineers [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 $373,900
[$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 
State Board of Public Accountancy 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 State Board of Public Accountancy 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.