By:  Zaffirini                                                    S.B. No. 187


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to permissible uses of money in the comprehensive 
rehabilitation fund.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 111.060, Human Resources 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The comptroller, on requisition by the commission, 
shall draw a warrant on the fund for the amount specified in that 
requisition for a use authorized in Section 111.052, except that 
the total of warrants issued during a state fiscal year may not 
exceed the amount appropriated for that fiscal year.  At the end of 
each state fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer to the 
General Revenue Fund any unexpended balance in the comprehensive 
rehabilitation fund that exceeds $1.5 million [$500,000].
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (d), Section 111.060, Human Resources 
Code, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.