SRC-TJG H.B. 3305 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 3305
78R14712 GWK-DBy: Berman (Whitmire)
Finance
5/19/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

H.B. 3305 implements several cost saving measures.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Chapter 2102, Government Code, by adding Section
2102.0041, as follows: 

Sec. 2102.0041.  EXEMPTION.  Provides that notwithstanding Section
2102.004, this chapter does not apply to the Criminal Justice Policy
Council. 

SECTION 2.  Requires the adjutant general's department to reduce
expenditures by instituting measures necessary to receive as much federal
funding as possible while implementing costsaving measures. 

SECTION 3.  Amends Section 5.50(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, to delete
existing language requiring surcharges to be set at a level so that the
anticipated total of all fees collected by the Texas Alcohol and Beverage
Commission (TABC) for a fiscal year and all surcharges for a fiscal year
are equal to the legislative appropriation to TABC for the regulation of
alcoholic beverages. 

SECTION 4.  Amends Section 61.084(f), Human Resources Code, to decrease
from 19 to 18 the age at which a person, who is sentenced under a
determinate sentence to commitment is to be transferred, to the custody of
a certain entity. 

SECTION 5.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2003.