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Amend CSSB 279 by inserting the following appropriately 
numbered article in the bill and renumbering the subsequent 
articles of the bill accordingly:

ARTICLE ___. WEATHER MODIFICATION
	SECTION __.001.  Section 20.001, Agriculture Code, as added 
by Chapter 376, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 
2001, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 20.001.  FINDINGS.  The legislature finds that weather 
modification and control activities may have a significant impact 
on Texas agriculture.  The legislature further finds that the Texas
Department of Licensing and Regulation [Agriculture] is the proper 
state agency to administer grants to political subdivisions for 
weather modification and control activities.
	SECTION __.002.  Section 20.002, Agriculture Code, as added 
by Chapter 376, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 
2001, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 20.002.  DEFINITIONS [DEFINITION].  In this chapter:
		(1)  "Department" means the Texas Department of 
Licensing and Regulation.
		(2)  "Weather[, "weather] modification and control" 
means changing or controlling, or attempting to change or control, 
by artificial methods the natural development of atmospheric cloud 
forms or precipitation forms that occur in the troposphere.
	SECTION __.003.  (a) On the effective date of this article, in 
accordance with the General Appropriations Act enacted by the 78th 
Legislature:
		(1)  all powers, duties, obligations, rights, and 
contracts of the Department of Agriculture associated with the 
weather modification and control grant program are transferred to 
the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation;
		(2)  all authority to fill full-time equivalent 
positions to administer the weather modification and control grant 
program and all unspent and unobligated appropriations to and other 
money held by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the 
program are transferred to the Texas Department of Licensing and 
Regulation; and
		(3)  all files, records, equipment, and other property 
of the Department of Agriculture that are used by that agency in 
connection with the administration of the weather modification and 
control grant program become the property of the Texas Department 
of Licensing and Regulation, but remain in the same location unless 
moved in accordance with the memorandum of understanding adopted 
under Subsection (b) of this section.
	(b)  The Department of Agriculture and the Texas Department 
of Licensing and Regulation shall adopt a memorandum of 
understanding not later than the 30th day after the effective date 
of this article that provides for the transfer, by that date, of any 
files, records, equipment, property, and personnel necessary to 
accomplish the transfer of the weather modification and control 
grant program from the Department of Agriculture to the Texas 
Department of Licensing and Regulation.