Floor Packet Page No. 215                                                   

	
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 
enactment and becoming law of HB 467 or similar legislation of the 
79th Legislature, Regular Session, that qualifies Harris County and 
Fort Bend County for the economically distressed areas program, the 
sum of $15,100,000, in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated 
by this Act, 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 transferred to the economically 
distressed areas program account to be used by the Texas Water 
Development Board to provide financial assistance to political 
subdivisions in Harris County and Fort Bend County; 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 economically distressed areas 
program.
	(b)  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.
	(2)  Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) accordingly.