C.S.S.B. 1439 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


C.S.S.B. 1439
By: Shapleigh
Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The State's National Guard facilities are in need of maintenance and
repair.  The federal government's fiscal year ends at the end of September
and the state's fiscal year ends at the end of August.  Federal funds
regularly become available to Texas in late August, but those monies are
sometimes lost because of the timeframe and the lack of a process to
identify and acquire matching funds.  C.S.S.B. 1439 authorizes the
Governor, after consulting with the Adjutant General and the executive
director of the Military Facilities Commission, to direct that money
appropriated for the purpose be used to obtain the federal matching funds
for projects at military facilities in Texas. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Committee that this bill does not expressly
delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer,
department, agency, or institution. 


ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. C.S.S.B. 1439 allows the Governor to direct certain state
monies to obtain federal matching funds for projects at military
facilities in Texas after consulting with the Military Facilities
Commission and the Texas Adjutant General.  

SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.


COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE:

The substitute modifies the Senate engrossed version of the bill in
SECTION 1 by striking the Military Facilities Funding Board and requires
consultation with certain persons instead.