Floor Packet Page No. 213                                                   

	Amend CSSB 1 as follows:                                                     

(1)  Under the Article XI appropriations to the Water 	Development Board (page XI-69), add the following appropriately 
numbered rider:
	___.  Contingent Appropriation: Economically Distressed 
Areas in Harris County and Fort Bend County. (a) Contingent on the 
availability of funds, the sum of $15,100,000 is appropriated out 
of the General Revenue Fund to the Texas Water Development Board for 
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2005, to be used as 
follows:
		(1)  $15,000,000 to be deposited to the credit of the 
Water Assistance Fund No. 480 and to be transferred by the Texas 
Water Development Board to the Water Loan Assistance Fund No. 481 to 
be used by the board to make grants to political subdivisions in 
Harris County and Fort Bend County for projects that provide 
adequate water or wastewater service to areas:
			(A)  in which water and wastewater services are 
inadequate to meet minimal needs for residential use; and
			(B)  that have a median household income that is 
not greater than 75 percent of the median state household income; 
and
		(2)  $50,000 in each year of the biennium to support one 
additional full-time equivalent employee of the Texas Water 
Development Board to administer the program.
	(b)  Any unexpended balances of the amount appropriated 
under Subsection (a)(2) of this rider for the state fiscal year 
beginning September 1, 2005, are appropriated for the purpose 
specified by that subsection for the state fiscal year beginning 
September 1, 2006.
	(c)  The number of full-time equivalent employee positions 
otherwise authorized by this Act for the Texas Water Development 
Board is increased by one for each fiscal year of the state fiscal 
biennium beginning September 1, 2005, as provided by Subsection 
(a)(2) of this rider.
	(d)  A full-time equivalent employee described by this rider 
is not counted for purposes of determining whether a provision of 
this Act that requires a percentage reduction in the full-time 
equivalent employee limit shown in the bill pattern of a state 
agency applies to the Texas Water Development Board.
	(2)  Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) accordingly.