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Amend SB 1131 (house committee printing) as follows:                         
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike new Section 773.006(b), 
Health and Safety Code.  (page 1, lines 13-15), and substitute:
	(b)  The account is composed of money deposited to the account 
under Article 102.0185, Code of Criminal Procedure, Section 
154.603(c), Tax Code, and the earnings of the account.
	(2)  Insert the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and 
renumber the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION _____.  Section 154.021(b), Tax Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	(b)  The tax rates are:                                                        
		(1)  $21.00 [$20.50] per thousand on cigarettes 
weighing three pounds or less per thousand; and
		(2)  the rate provided by Subdivision (1) plus $2.10 per 
thousand on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 
thousand.
	SECTION _____.  Section 154.603, Tax Code, is amended to read 
as follows:    
	Sec. 154.603.  DISPOSITION OF REVENUE.  (a)  After the 
deductions for the purposes provided by Section 154.602 [of this 
code], the revenue remaining of the first $2 of tax received per 
1,000 cigarettes for cigarettes weighing three pounds or less per 
thousand and the first $4.10 per 1,000 cigarettes of the tax 
received for cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 
thousand is allocated:
		(1)  18.75 percent to the foundation school fund; and                         
		(2)  81.25 percent to the general revenue fund.                               
	(b)  The revenue remaining after the deductions for the 
purposes provided by Section 154.602 [of this code] and allocation 
under Subsection (a) [of this section] of the first $20.50 of tax 
received per 1,000 cigarettes per cigarettes weighing three pounds 
or less per thousand and the first $22.60 per 1,000 cigarettes of 
the tax received for cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 
thousand is allocated to the general revenue fund.
	(c)  The revenue remaining after the deductions for the 
purposes provided by Section 154.602 and allocation under 
Subsections (a) and (b) shall be deposited to the credit of the fund 
for emergency medical services, trauma facilities, and trauma care 
systems created under Section 773.006, Health and Safety Code.