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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 2 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
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(1) Add the following appropriately numbered rider in |
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Article I following the appropriations to the Comptroller of Public |
|
Accounts: |
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__. Contingent Appropriation: Review of Appraisal District |
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Appraisal Standards. (a) Contingent on the enactment of House Bill |
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2513 or similar legislation of the 80th Legislature relating to |
|
periodic reviews of appraisal district appraisal standards, the |
|
Article X appropriations to the Texas House of Representatives for |
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Strategy A.1.1. (page X-2) for the fiscal year ending August 31, |
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2008, are reduced by $1,500,000, and those appropriations for the |
|
fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, are reduced by $1,500,000, and |
|
the amount of $1,500,000 from the same methods of finance is added |
|
to the amounts otherwise appropriated for each of those fiscal |
|
years to the Comptroller of Public Accounts for the purpose of |
|
conducting those periodic reviews of appraisal district appraisal |
|
standards. |
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(b) The unexpended balance of the amount appropriated by |
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Subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, is |
|
appropriated to the Comptroller of Public Accounts for the same |
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purpose for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. |
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(2) Adjust article and agency totals (pages I-21 and X-2) |
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accordingly. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 3 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider in Article I of the bill after the appropriation to |
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the Comptroller of Public Accounts: |
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___. Out of the appropriation made in this Article for the |
|
Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Comptroller of Public Accounts |
|
shall expend funds to issue a report to be made easily accessible by |
|
the public, itemized by fund, on the use of state taxes and fees for |
|
purposes other than the purpose for which they were expressly |
|
collected. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 4 |
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Amend the amendment to C.S.H.B. No 1 by adding the following |
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appropriately number revised rider in Article I of the bill after |
|
the appropriation to the Comptroller of public Accounts: |
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___. Out of the appropriation made to this Article for the |
|
Comptroller of public Accounts, the Comptroller of Public Accounts |
|
shall expend funds to issue a report to be placed on the agency's |
|
website made easily accessible by the public, itemized by General |
|
Revenue-Dedicated Fund fund, on the use of state taxes and fees for |
|
purposes other than the purpose for which theythe General |
|
Revenue-Dedicated Funds were expressly collected. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 5 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. 1, Article I, Texas Historical Commission, on |
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page I-55, by adding a new rider to read as follows and by numbering |
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it accordingly: |
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"___. African Americans in Texas. Historical & Cultural |
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Legacies. Out of the funds appropriated above, the Commission |
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shall print sufficient copies for public distribution of the |
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booklet entitled African Americans in Texas: Historical & Cultural |
|
Legacies. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 6 |
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Amend Committee Substitute for House Bill 1 as follows: |
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1. On Page I-44, Office of the Governor, reduce funding for |
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Strategy A.1.1. Support Governor & State by $800,000 in Fiscal Year |
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2008; |
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2. On Page I-78, Veterans Commission, increase funding for |
|
Strategy A.1.1. Claims Representation and Counseling; and |
|
3. On Page I-80, amend Section 4. Visitation to Wounded and |
|
Disabled Veterans by striking the words "amount of $52,000" and |
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substituting in lieu thereof the words "amount necessary". |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 7 |
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Amend Amendment No. 16 by Escobar to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 22 |
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of the prefiled amendments packet) as follows: |
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(1) In item 1 of the amendment, strike "reduce funding for |
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Strategy A.1.1. Support Governor & State by $800,000" and |
|
substitute "reduce general revenue appropriations for Strategy |
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A.1.1. SUPPORT GOVERNOR & STATE by $600,000". |
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(2) In item 2 of the amendment strike "increase funding for |
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Strategy A.1.1. Claims Representation and Counseling" and |
|
substitute "increase general revenue appropriations for Strategy |
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A.1.1. CLAIMS REPRESENTATION & COUNSELING by $600,000 for the state |
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fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2009". |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 8 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. 1 as follows: |
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(1) Add the following appropriately numbered rider to |
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Article II of the bill after the appropriations to the Department of |
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Family and Protective Services: |
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____. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR HB 3008. Contingent |
|
upon the enactment of HB 3008 or similar legislation by the 80th |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, that becomes law, the amount of |
|
$600,000 is appropriated to the Department of Family and Protective |
|
Services out of the general revenue fund for the state fiscal |
|
biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for the purpose of |
|
implementing any of the purposes of that legislation. |
|
(2) In Article VI of the bill, in the general revenue fund |
|
appropriations to the Markets & Public Health within the Department |
|
of Agriculture, in the Strategy A.1.1 appropriations to the |
|
Generate Marketing Opportunities (house committee printing, page |
|
VI-1), strike "$16,802,470" and substitute "$16,502,470" for |
|
fiscal year 2008 and strike "$9,725,103" and substitute "9,425,103" |
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for fiscal year 2009. |
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(3) Adjust totals and methods of financing accordingly. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 9 |
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Amend Floor Amendment No. 24 of C.S.H.B. 1 by Pierson (page 30 |
|
of the prefiled amendments packet) as follows: |
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(1) on line 4 strike "II" and substitute "XI" |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 10 |
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Amend CSHB 1 in Article II of the bill on page II-36 by adding |
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the following Rider No. ____: |
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Subsidized Guardianship Program. The Department is hereby |
|
directed to maximize federal funding for Guardianship programs by |
|
developing and submitting a waiver that will allow the state of |
|
Texas to use Title IV-E or any other federal funds that become |
|
available for subsidized guardianship programs. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 11 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 26 on page 33 of the amendment |
|
packet by inserting the following language between "developing and |
|
submitting" and "a waiver that will allow the state of Texas": |
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"or applying for" |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 12 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article II by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider (on page _____) after the |
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appropriations to the Dept. of State Health Services: |
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_____. |
|
Rider 6381. Family Planning Services at Federally Qualified |
|
Health Centers: Out of funds appropriated in Strategy B.1.3, |
|
Family Planning Services, up to $10,000,000 in each year of the |
|
2008-092006 07 biennium shall be set aside for family planning |
|
services provided by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs. |
|
The Department shall implement this provision only to the extent |
|
that it will not have an adverse affect on the number of women |
|
served by the family planning program, especially in underserved |
|
areas of the state and areas where no FQHC is available. In |
|
addition, up to $1,000,000 per year may be allocated to clinics for |
|
core family planning services provided under the auspices of Baylor |
|
College of Medicine. Funds will be allocated statewide to counties |
|
for family planning services according to DSHS' annual assessment |
|
of women-in-need and on the contractor's ability to utilize their |
|
full allocation effectively. Any funds not applied for and granted |
|
to FQHCs each fiscal year shall be made available to non-FQHC |
|
contractorsgrantees. FQHCs funded under this strategy shall assure |
|
that recipients receive comprehensive primary and preventive care |
|
in addition to the family planning services. The Department of |
|
State Health Services shall work with FQHC contractorsgrantees to |
|
assure that reporting requirements are aligned with FQHC |
|
eligibility, payment and reporting requirements. |
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ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 13 |
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Required Action |
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1) Replace the floor amendment to Committee Substitute for |
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House Bill 1 by Chisum on page 38 with the following. |
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Add the following rider to the bill pattern for the |
|
Department of State Health Services in Article XI, numbering as |
|
appropriate. |
|
_____. Family Planning Services at Federally Qualified |
|
Health Centers. Out of funds appropriated in Strategy B.1.3, |
|
Family Planning Services, up to $10,000,000 in each year of the |
|
2008-09 biennium shall be set aside for family planning services |
|
provided by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). The |
|
Department shall implement this provision only to the extent that |
|
it will not have an adverse affect on the number served by the |
|
family planning program, especially counties where no FQHC is |
|
available. In addition, up to $1,000,000 per year may be allocated |
|
to clinics for core family planning services provided under the |
|
auspices of Baylor College of Medicine. Funds will be allocated |
|
statewide to counties for family planning services according to |
|
DSHS' annual assessment of women-in-need and on the contractors' |
|
prior year compliance with stated performance measures. Any funds |
|
not applied for and granted to FQHCs each fiscal year shall be made |
|
available to non-FQHC contractors. FQHCs funded under this |
|
strategy shall assure that recipients receive comprehensive |
|
primary and preventive care in addition to the family planning |
|
services. The Department of State Health Services shall work with |
|
FQHC contractors to assure that reporting requirements are aligned |
|
with FQHC eligibility, payment, and reporting requirements. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 14 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article II on pages II-72 by striking Rider |
|
No. 31 and substituting the following: |
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31. Other Reporting Requirements. |
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a. Federal Reports. The Health and Human Services |
|
Commission shall submit the following information |
|
to the Legislative Budget Board, the Governor, and |
|
all Members of the Texas Legislature no later than |
|
the date the respective report is submitted to the |
|
federal government: |
|
(1) Notification of proposed State Plan amendments |
|
or waivers for Medicaid, CHIP, TANF, and any |
|
other federal grant requiring a state plan. |
|
State Plan amendments and waiver submissions |
|
shall also be provided to the Senate Health and |
|
Human Services, House Human Services, and House |
|
Public Health committees. |
|
(2) A copy of each report or petition submitted to |
|
the federal government relating to Medicaid, |
|
CHIP, and TANF. |
|
b. Federal Issues. The Health and Human Services |
|
Commission shall notify the Legislative Budget |
|
Board and the Governor on a timely basis about |
|
emerging issues that could result in the loss of |
|
more than $1 million in federal revenue assumed in |
|
the appropriations act. |
|
c. Monthly Financial Reports. The Health and Human |
|
Services Commission shall submit the following |
|
information to the Legislative Budget Board and the |
|
Governor on a monthly basis: |
|
(1) Information on appropriated, budgeted, |
|
expended, and projected funds and |
|
full-time-equivalents, by strategy and method |
|
of finance. |
|
(2) Information on appropriated, budgeted, |
|
expended, and projected revenues, including |
|
program income, interest earnings, experience |
|
rebates, vendor drug rebates (Medicaid, CHIP |
|
and supplemental), Medicaid subrogation |
|
receipts, premium co-payments, earned federal |
|
funds, cost sharing - Medicaid clients, and |
|
appropriated receipts used as match for federal |
|
funds. |
|
(3) Narrative explanations of significant budget |
|
adjustments, ongoing budget issues, and other |
|
items as appropriate. |
|
(4) Narrative and tabular explanation of |
|
adjustments made to translate actuarial |
|
forecasts of incurred claims into |
|
budgeted/expended amounts on a cash basis for |
|
the Medicaid program. |
|
(5) Any other information requested by the |
|
Legislative Budget Board or the Governor. |
|
The monthly financial reports shall be prepared in a format |
|
specified by the Legislative Budget Board. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 15 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment 36 on page 45 in the amendment packet |
|
adding section (d.) before the final sentence: |
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d. Additional Monthly Reports. The Health and Human |
|
Services Commission shall provide the following |
|
information electronically on the Commission's |
|
website to the general public: |
|
(1) Information provided to the Legislative Budget |
|
Board, the Governor, and all Members of the |
|
Legislature, as prescribed by Section (a)(1) in |
|
this rider, at the same time it is submitted to |
|
those groups. |
|
(2) Monthly enrollment totals in all the programs |
|
for which there is a performance target measure |
|
for the Commission. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 16 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article II on pages II-75 by striking Rider |
|
No. 44 and substituting the following: |
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"44. Medicaid Reform Waiver. Contingent on findings that a |
|
Medicaid reform waiver is cost effective and feasible, the Health |
|
and Human Services Commission shall seek a Medicaid reform waiver |
|
or waivers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The |
|
Medicaid reform waiver(s) should incorporate the following |
|
principles without reducing the health benefit plan for children's |
|
Medicaid: |
|
(a) efficiently leverage state, local, federal and other |
|
funding to: |
|
(1) increase state flexibility in its use of Medicaid |
|
funding; |
|
(2) allow the state to be a more prudent purchaser and |
|
payer of health care; |
|
(3) build on private market approaches and |
|
insurance-based premiums; |
|
(4) reduce the state's uninsured through private |
|
market-based solutions and the expansion of Medicaid; |
|
(5) promote the transition of consumers from public |
|
insurance to private insurance. |
|
(b) support the increased personal planning and investments |
|
in long term care needs; |
|
(c) support consumer empowerment and choice;] |
|
(d) create incentives for healthier behaviors; |
|
(e) align state policy and financial incentives by creating |
|
a more transparent, systematic, and efficient approach for |
|
allocating available funding within the health care system; and |
|
(f) solicit broad-based stakeholder input. |
|
Further it is the intent of the Legislature that Medicaid |
|
reform waiver(s) recognizes the unique needs of the state's rural |
|
providers, trauma centers, and primary care residency programs. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 17 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment 38 on page 48 of the amendment packet by |
|
striking everything following "Medicaid Reform Waiver." and |
|
substituting the following: |
|
"Contingent on findings that a Medicaid reform waiver is cost |
|
effective and feasible, the Health and Human Services Commission |
|
shall seek a Medicaid reform waiver or waivers from the Centers for |
|
Medicare and Medicaid Services that protect the interests of Texas |
|
Medicaid recipients and taxpayers by incorporating the following |
|
principles: |
|
(a) efficiently leverage state, local, federal and other |
|
funding to: |
|
(1) increase state flexibility in its use of Medicaid |
|
funding by authorizing tailored benefit plans designed to manage |
|
health conditions, not reduce plan benefits for any Medicaid |
|
recipient population; |
|
(2) allow the state to be a more prudent purchaser and |
|
payer of health care ensuring positive health outcomes while |
|
pursuing value-conscious pricing; |
|
(3) build on private market approaches and |
|
insurance-based premiums by establishing multi-share programs |
|
and/or low income pools that create more private coverage; |
|
(4) reduce the state's uninsured through market-based |
|
solutions coupled with best state practices to maximize federal |
|
funds; and |
|
(5) promote the transition of consumers from public |
|
insurance to private insurance by guaranteeing that any pooling of |
|
disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and upper payment limit (UPL) |
|
funds will include inflation and population growth factors. |
|
(b) support the increased personal planning and investments |
|
in long term care needs; |
|
(c) support consumer empowerment and choice by authorizing |
|
Health Savings Accounts, Premium Assistance, Health Insurance |
|
Premium Payment (HIPP) programs, or "Opt-out" programs that: |
|
(1) include a provision requiring that the Health and |
|
Human Services Commission first determine that it is cost |
|
effective; |
|
(2) either exempt recipients under age 21 or |
|
explicitly require that the program be designed to protect and |
|
promote children's access to preventive care and medical |
|
treatments; and |
|
(3) guarantee that recipient participation is |
|
voluntary, and guarantee that a prompt return to regular Medicaid |
|
coverage is allowed on request by the recipient. |
|
(d) create incentives for healthier behaviors by |
|
establishing programs that provide positive rewards for healthy |
|
behaviors, and not punitive incentives; |
|
(e) align state policy and financial incentives by creating |
|
a more transparent, systematic, and efficient approach for |
|
allocating available funding within the health care system; and |
|
(f) solicit broad-based stakeholder input. |
|
Further it is the intent of the Legislature that any Medicaid |
|
reform waiver(s) sought from the federal government will not |
|
include a waiver of children's comprehensive health care under |
|
Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT). The |
|
authority of the Health and Human Services Commission to impose any |
|
cost-sharing policies on Medicaid recipients is limited to |
|
non-emergent ER use co-payments. The Legislature also recognizes |
|
the unique needs of the state's rural providers, trauma centers, |
|
and primary care residency programs. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 18 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article II of the bill, by amending |
|
Rider 51 following the appropriations to the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission (Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities rider, |
|
page II-77) to read as follows: |
|
51. Freestanding Psychiatric Facilities. To determine |
|
Medicaid payment for inpatient services in freestanding |
|
psychiatric facilities, it is the intent of the Legislature that |
|
the Health and Human Services Commission adopt a reimbursement |
|
methodology based on the prospective payment system currently used |
|
by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reimburse |
|
inpatient psychiatric services [under the Medicare program], to the |
|
extent the commission finds that the increase in reimbursement [it] |
|
is cost-effective. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 19 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
1. Strike Rider 57 in the Health and Human Services Commission's |
|
bill pattern, page II-78. |
|
2. In Article II, add the following rider for the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission: |
|
. Staffing and Capital Authorization in Lieu of Contracted |
|
Responsibilities. |
|
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, if the |
|
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission |
|
determines that a service performed as of the effective date of this |
|
Act under a contract would be more effectively performed by state |
|
personnel, the executive commissioner is authorized to adjust the |
|
agency's FTE limitation to the extent necessary to ensure the |
|
successful assumption of such contracted duties. The commission |
|
must make corresponding adjustments in the scope of duties and |
|
responsibilities in the affected contract. An increase in agency |
|
staffing resulting from the executive commissioner's determination |
|
under this section is subject to the following requirements: |
|
1. The commission must notify the Legislative Budget Board and |
|
the Governor at least 10 days prior to adjusting the |
|
budgeted FTE levels. |
|
2. The commission must report on a quarterly basis beginning |
|
December 1, 2007 to the Legislative Budget Board and the |
|
Governor the number of eligibility and related support |
|
staff and any related costs in Strategy A.1.2, Integrated |
|
Eligibility and Enrollment. |
|
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, if the |
|
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission |
|
determines that a service performed as of the effective date of this |
|
Act under a contract would be more effectively performed by state |
|
personnel, the Health and Human Services Commission is authorized |
|
to exceed the capital authority limitation provided elsewhere in |
|
this Act to the extent necessary to acquire hardware, software, |
|
office space, or other capital items to support any assumed |
|
contracted duties. The commission must make corresponding |
|
adjustments in the scope of the affected contract. An increase in a |
|
capital project is subject to the following requirements: |
|
1. The commission must notify the Legislative Budget Board and |
|
the Governor at least 10 days prior to acquiring capital |
|
equipment. |
|
2. The commission must include capital acquisitions in |
|
required financial reporting to the Legislative Budget |
|
Board and the Governor. |
|
Justification: This provision would authorize HHSC to exceed the |
|
agency's FTE cap and capital budget authority during the 2008-09 |
|
biennium for purposes related to eligibility determination and |
|
related supports that would be performed by state workers in lieu of |
|
outsourced functions. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 20 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered rider in |
|
Article II of the bill following the appropriations to the Health |
|
and Human Services Commission: |
|
_____. TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY. It is the |
|
intent of the legislature that the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission shall ensure that technology systems used to support the |
|
Medicaid fraud pilot program and the electronic health passport for |
|
foster care program are HIPAA compliant, web-based, and fully |
|
interoperable with all provider legacy medical records and can be |
|
used as a medical record for all providers. To the extent allowed |
|
by federal law, the Health and Human Services Commission shall use |
|
federal grants related to the electronic health passport for foster |
|
care program to create an interoperable system. |
|
(2) In Article XI, on page XI-13, following the |
|
appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission, strike |
|
the rider for Technology Systems Interoperability. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 21 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider in Article II after the appropriations to the Health |
|
and Human Services Commission: |
|
____. Restriction on Use of Funds for HPV Vaccine. None of |
|
the funds appropriated above to the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission may be used to require immunization against human |
|
papillomavirus for admission to school, or to purchase or |
|
administer a vaccine to comply with such a requirement, in |
|
accordance with the Governor's Executive Order RP65 without prior |
|
written approval from the Legislative Budget Board and the |
|
Governor. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 22 |
|
Amend Amendment No. __ by Davis (page 53, pre-filed |
|
amendments packet) by striking the text of the amendment and |
|
substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider in Article II of the bill following the special |
|
provisions relating to all health and human services agencies: |
|
__. Restriction on Use of Funds for HPV Vaccine. None of the |
|
funds appropriated above to an agency in Article II may be used to |
|
require immunization against human papilloma virus as a condition |
|
for admission to school or used to purchase or administer a vaccine |
|
to comply with such a requirement in the Governor's Executive Order |
|
RP65 or other similar executive orders or directions. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 23 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) In the appropriations to the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission in Article II of the bill, strike strategy D.1.2. (page |
|
II-62) and strike the appropriations for that strategy for each |
|
state fiscal year. |
|
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered rider in |
|
Article II of the bill under the appropriations to the Health and |
|
Human Services Commission: |
|
__. Nutrition Assistance Program Full Time Equivalent |
|
Employee Authorization. Notwithstanding other authorizations for |
|
full time equivalent employees (FTEs), the number of authorized |
|
FTEs for the Health and Human Services Commission is reduced by 99.0 |
|
FTEs for each fiscal year of the biennium. |
|
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered rider in |
|
Article VI of the bill under the appropriations to the Department of |
|
Agriculture: |
|
__. Appropriation: Nutrition Assistance Program Funding |
|
and Employees. (a) The following amounts are appropriated to the |
|
Department of Agriculture for the purpose of administering a |
|
nutrition assistance program: |
|
(1) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, |
|
2007, the amount of $859,937 in general revenue and the amount of |
|
$266,744,714 in federal funds; and |
|
(2) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, |
|
2008, the amount of $859,937 in general revenue and the amount of |
|
$266,744,707 in federal funds. |
|
(b) In addition to other authorizations for full time |
|
equivalent employees (FTEs), the number of authorized FTEs for the |
|
Department of Agriculture is increased by 99.0 FTEs for each fiscal |
|
year of the biennium to administer the department's nutrition |
|
assistance program. |
|
(c) If the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, does not |
|
enact legislation that becomes law and that transfers the |
|
responsibility for administering the nutrition assistance program |
|
from the Health and Human Services Commission to the Department of |
|
Agriculture: |
|
(1) the appropriations made by Subsection (a) above do |
|
not take effect and the same amounts from the same sources are |
|
appropriated for the same purpose and the same state fiscal years to |
|
the Health and Human Services Commission; and |
|
(2) the increase in the department's authorized full |
|
time equivalent employees (FTEs) as provided by Subsection (b) |
|
above does not take effect and the number of authorized FTEs for the |
|
Health and Human Services Commission is increased by 99.0 FTEs for |
|
each fiscal year of the biennium to administer the commission's |
|
nutrition assistance program. |
|
(4) Adjust totals and methods of financing accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 24 |
|
Proposed Amendment to Committee Substitute for HB 1 |
|
Article II, Health and Human Services Commission |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
We have been asked to prepare an amendment which would require the |
|
Health and Human Services Commission to take certain actions with |
|
regard to eligibility certifications. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page II-78 of the bill pattern for the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission, add the following new rider: |
|
____. Eligibility Certifications. It is the intent of the |
|
Legislature that all initial eligibility certifications for Health |
|
and Human Service eligibility-based programs utilize technology to |
|
reduce time required for those determinations and to reduce error |
|
rates. The Health and Human Services Commission shall determine |
|
the feasibility of utilizing proven technology for that purpose, |
|
and shall implement any such procedures found to be beneficial no |
|
later than January 1, 2008. |
|
For re-certification of eligibility-based programs, no later than |
|
January 1, 2008 the Commission shall implement procedures to |
|
determine the need for a personal interview, based on a system of |
|
objective, risk-based factors and conditions. Such procedures |
|
shall apply to all re-certifications on a regular and continuous |
|
basis, and shall comply with and apply all current federal mandates |
|
and guidelines concerning Payment Error Rate Measure (PERM). Such |
|
procedures shall measure and control PERM within Medicaid and CHIP |
|
to within a 4% error rate, or within any other lower established |
|
federal guideline, and shall be designed to permit continuous |
|
enrollment for qualified recipients. |
|
In the event the Commission determines to contract with an outside |
|
vendor for these services, preference shall be given to any vendor |
|
organized in the State of Texas and whose primary business presence |
|
is in the State of Texas. Further preference shall be given to any |
|
vendor that has, at the time of bidding, successfully implemented |
|
in at least one other state the technology offered. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 25 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
On page II-98, insert the following and number appropriately: |
|
Report to the United States Congress on services and |
|
benefits provided to unlawfully present immigrants. The Health and |
|
Human Services Commission shall compile a report of the cost of |
|
services and benefits provided to unlawfully present immigrants, |
|
with the agency determining the extent to which unlawfully present |
|
immigrants are served by the agency, by individual program. The |
|
agency may use a statistical method developed by the agency in cases |
|
where it is not practical for the agency to directly determine |
|
whether recipients of a service or benefit are unlawfully present |
|
immigrants. |
|
The Health and Human Services Commission shall also compile |
|
information on this subject from each public hospital district |
|
within the state and include this information in the report. |
|
This report shall be provided to the United States Congress |
|
by December 1, 2008 and may be used as supporting materials by the |
|
State of Texas in requests for additional federal appropriations to |
|
assist with these costs. |
|
The Health and Human Services Agency shall also submit the |
|
required report to the lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of |
|
representatives, and members of the legislature by December 1, |
|
2008, and shall include the information in the agency's annual |
|
report for 2008. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 26 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 54 by Delisi to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (Floor |
|
Amendment packet, page 72) as follows: |
|
(1) On page 1, line 5 of the amendment, strike "unlawfully |
|
present" and substitute "undocumented". |
|
(2) On page 1, line 7 of the amendment, strike "unlawfully |
|
present" and substitute "undocumented". |
|
(3) On page 1, line 9 of the amendment, strike "unlawfully |
|
present" and substitute "undocumented". |
|
(4) On page 1, line 13 of the amendment, strike "unlawfully |
|
present" and substitute "undocumented". |
|
(5) On page 1 of the amendment, between lines 16 and 17, |
|
insert the following: |
|
The report must be produced using aggregated statistical data |
|
that does not contain personally identifiable information. The |
|
purpose of compiling this information is to perform analysis to |
|
assist the United States Congress and this state in making future |
|
health care and budgetary decisions. Information sought for the |
|
preparation of this report may not violate any federal or state |
|
laws, including rules, regarding privacy. |
|
(6) On page 1, line 21 of the amendment, strike "Agency" and |
|
substitute "Commission." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 27 |
|
Amendment to an amendment CSHB 1 as follows: |
|
On line 16, of Rider 72 by Delisi, is amended by adding |
|
between "report" and the (.) |
|
and shall not enforce Title 8 of the United States Code when |
|
compiling information on this subject |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 28 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 54 by Delisi to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (Page 72, |
|
pre-filed amendments packet) by striking the last paragraph of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
The Health and Human Services Commission or a public hospital |
|
district may compile and report the information required by this |
|
rider only in a manner the attorney general of this state certifies |
|
as consistent with federal law. |
|
The Health and Human Services Commission again shall submit |
|
the required report to the lieutenant governor, speaker of the |
|
house of representatives, and members of the legislature not later |
|
than December 1, 2008, and shall include the information in the |
|
agency's annual report for 2008. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 29 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
Add the following appropriately numbered rider following the |
|
appropriations to the trusteed programs within the office of the |
|
governor: |
|
_____. Grants to Certain Peace Officer Organizations. The |
|
Criminal Justice Division may not use any money appropriated under |
|
this Act to make a grant or other distribution to an association, |
|
group, union, lodge, local, or other organization, whether |
|
incorporated or unincorporated, in which peace officers |
|
participate and which exists wholly or partly to deal with |
|
employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages and rates of |
|
pay, hours of employment, and conditions of work if: |
|
(1) the organization or an employee of the |
|
organization is required to register under Chapter 305, Government |
|
Code; |
|
(2) the organization employs a person for the purpose |
|
of affecting the outcome of legislation, agency rules, ordinances, |
|
or other governmental policies; or |
|
(3) the organization provides legal representation to |
|
its members. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 30 |
|
Amend the Menendez amendment #13 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 15 of |
|
the amendment packet) as follows: |
|
(1) On page 1 of the amendment, line 2, before "Add the", |
|
insert "(1)". |
|
(2) On page 1 of the amendment, following line 20, insert |
|
the following: |
|
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered rider |
|
following the Article VII appropriations to the Texas Department of |
|
Transportation: |
|
______. Grants to Certain Peace Officer Organizations. The |
|
Texas Department of Transportation may not use any money |
|
appropriated under this Act to make a grant or other distribution to |
|
an association, group, union, lodge, local, or other organization, |
|
whether incorporated or unincorporated, in which peace officers |
|
participate and which exists wholly or partly to deal with |
|
employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages and rates of |
|
pay, hours of employment, and conditions of work if: |
|
(1) the organization or an employee of the |
|
organization is required to register under Chapter 305, Government |
|
Code; |
|
(2) the organization employs a person for the purpose |
|
of affecting the outcome of legislation, agency rules, ordinances, |
|
or other governmental policies; or |
|
(3) the organization provides legal representation to |
|
its members. |
|
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered rider to |
|
Article IX of the bill: |
|
______. Grants to Certain Peace Officer Organizations. A |
|
state agency may not use any money appropriated under this Act to |
|
make a grant or other distribution to an association, group, union, |
|
lodge, local, or other organization, whether incorporated or |
|
unincorporated, in which peace officers participate and which |
|
exists wholly or partly to deal with employers concerning |
|
grievances, labor disputes, wages and rates of pay, hours of |
|
employment, and conditions of work if: |
|
(1) the organization or an employee of the |
|
organization is required to register under Chapter 305, Government |
|
Code; |
|
(2) the organization employs a person for the purpose |
|
of affecting the outcome of legislation, agency rules, ordinances, |
|
or other governmental policies; or |
|
(3) the organization provides legal representation to |
|
its members. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 31 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) On page III-2, reduce the general revenue appropriation of |
|
Goal A: Strategy A.2.4, School Improvement & Support Programs by |
|
$263,056,920 in Fiscal Year 2008 and $319,114,000 in Fiscal Year |
|
2009. |
|
(2) On page III-20 delete Rider 73, Student Achievement and |
|
Educator Excellence Awards Program. |
|
(a) Appropriate funds in the above amounts to Goal A: Strategy |
|
A.1.1., FSP - Equalized Operations with the intent that the Texas |
|
Education Agency will apply an amount equal to the product of $1,000 |
|
multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time |
|
librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B, |
|
Chapter 21, and full time school nurses employed by the district or |
|
a charter school and entitled to a minimum salary under Section |
|
21.402 of the Texas Education Code. |
|
(b) This amount shall be applied in addition to any step increase |
|
the employee is entitled. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 32 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. __ to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Noriega |
|
(page 77 prefiled amendments packet) by striking lines 9-13 of the |
|
amendment and substituting: |
|
an amount such that each person entitled to a minimum salary under |
|
Section 21.402, Education Code, may receive an equal salary |
|
increase, including a classroom teacher, full-time librarian, |
|
full-time counselor certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, |
|
Education Code, and full-time school nurse employed by a school |
|
district or a charter school. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 33 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article II of the bill, on page II-78 by |
|
adding the following Rider No. ___: |
|
"CHIP Eligibility Determinations for Children. The Health and |
|
Human Services Commission shall not adopt business rules & policies |
|
concerning the eligibility and reenrollment of families applying |
|
for the Children's Health Insurance Program that create undue |
|
bureaucratic barriers." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 34 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 65 on page 58 of the amendment packet by |
|
striking everything after "CHIP Eligibility Determinations for |
|
Children" and substituting the following: |
|
"Out of funds appropriated above in Goal C, CHIP Services: |
|
(a) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission ("the commissioner") shall, to the |
|
greatest extent possible, diminish errors which create |
|
barriers that wrongly deny or delay coverage for which a child |
|
is eligible. |
|
(1) The commissioner shall ensure that children are |
|
screened simultaneously for eligibility for the Medicaid |
|
program and the state child health plan using a |
|
consolidated application; and |
|
(2) once the eligibility procedures are complete, all |
|
children identified as eligible for the state child health |
|
plan should be automatically enrolled without further |
|
application or qualification. |
|
(b) The commissioner shall ensure that the processing time |
|
for applications and eligibility redeterminations for the |
|
state child health plan program meet or exceed the performance |
|
levels realized in state fiscal year 2004 by ensuring that the |
|
private and public components, including call centers, of the |
|
eligibility and enrollment system for the state child health |
|
program are adequately staffed and trained. In addition, the |
|
commissioner shall ensure that all computer systems that |
|
support the eligibility and enrollment systems are performing |
|
properly. |
|
(c) If for any reason a child becomes ineligible for the state |
|
child health plan program, the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission shall, before terminating the child's benefits |
|
under the program, determine whether the child is eligible for |
|
the Medicaid program, based on the information currently |
|
available to the commission. If the commission determines that |
|
the child is eligible, the commission shall enroll the child in |
|
the Medicaid program without further application or |
|
qualification, unless the child's parent objects to |
|
enrollment. The commission shall notify a parent of the |
|
child's eligibility for the Medicaid program and automatic |
|
enrollment in that program as soon as practicable after |
|
eligibility has been determined. |
|
(d) Further, |
|
(1) To the extent allowed by federal law, the executive |
|
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission |
|
shall create a program under which a child who is |
|
ineligible for the health benefits coverage under the |
|
child health plan solely because the child's net family |
|
income exceeds the income eligibility requirements |
|
otherwise applicable for that coverage may be enrolled in |
|
the plan if: |
|
(i) the child's parents are self-employed; or |
|
(ii) the employer of neither of the child's parents |
|
offers coverage for health care for dependent |
|
children of employees. |
|
(2) The program established under Subsection (1) must |
|
require premium payments, subject to Subsection (3). |
|
(3) The full monthly premium cost for coverage provided |
|
under the program established under this section, |
|
including the amount of any federal or state share of that |
|
cost, must be paid by an enrollee whose net family income |
|
is above 200 percent of the federal poverty level." |
|
The intent of this amendment is that it be revenue neutral, and that |
|
these provisions be completed within funds appropriated above in |
|
Goal C. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 35 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article II of the bill, on page II-78 by |
|
adding the following Rider No. ___: |
|
"Medicaid Eligibility Determinations for Children. The Health |
|
and Human Services Commission shall not adopt business rules & |
|
policies concerning the eligibility and reenrollment of families |
|
applying for Children's Medicaid that create undue bureaucratic |
|
barriers." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 36 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 67 on page 57 of the amendment packet |
|
by striking everything after "Medicaid Eligibility Determinations |
|
for Children." and substituting the following: |
|
"Out of funds appropriated above in Goal B, Medicaid: |
|
(a) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission ("the commissioner") shall, to the |
|
greatest extent possible, diminish errors which create |
|
barriers that wrongly deny or delay coverage for which a |
|
child is eligible. |
|
(1) In accordance with federal regulations, the |
|
commissioner shall work to provide that children are |
|
screened simultaneously for eligibility for the |
|
Medicaid program and the state child health plan using |
|
a consolidated application; and |
|
(2) once the eligibility procedures are complete, |
|
all children identified as eligible for the Medicaid |
|
program should be automatically enrolled without |
|
further application or qualification. |
|
(b) The commissioner shall ensure that the processing |
|
time for applications and eligibility redeterminations |
|
for the Medicaid program meet or exceed the performance |
|
levels realized in state fiscal year 2004 by ensuring that |
|
the private and public components, including call centers, |
|
of the eligibility and enrollment system for the Medicaid |
|
program are adequately staffed and trained. In addition, |
|
the commissioner shall ensure that all computer systems |
|
that support the eligibility and enrollment systems are |
|
performing properly. |
|
(c) If for any reason a child becomes ineligible for the |
|
state child health plan program, the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission shall, before terminating the child's |
|
benefits under the program, determine whether the child is |
|
eligible for the Medicaid program, based on the |
|
information currently available to the commission. If the |
|
commission determines that the child is eligible, the |
|
commission shall enroll the child in the Medicaid program |
|
without further application or qualification, unless the |
|
child's parent objects to enrollment. The commission shall |
|
notify a parent of the child's eligibility for the |
|
Medicaid program and automatic enrollment in that program |
|
as soon as practicable after eligibility has been |
|
determined. |
|
The intent of this amendment is that it be revenue neutral, and |
|
that these provisions be completed within funds appropriated |
|
above in Goal B. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 37 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1, Article III, Rider 33, on page III-12, |
|
under the appropriation for the Texas Education Agency by inserting |
|
the following after the first sentence: For districts that do not |
|
have a tier one allotment, the reduction shall be from any other |
|
formula or hold harmless funds paid to the district, or from an |
|
increase in required attendance credits. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 38 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1, Article III, on page III-21, by inserting |
|
the following appropriately-numbered Rider to the appropriation |
|
for the Texas Education Agency to read as follows and renumbering |
|
subsequent Riders accordingly: |
|
"_____. Teachers & other Professional Staff Pay Raise. To |
|
the extent that the amount appropriated in A.1.1., FSP-Equalized |
|
Operations, together with all other amounts appropriated from the |
|
Foundation School Fund and other sources for the cost of property |
|
tax relief, exceeds the amount determined by the Commissioner to be |
|
necessary to achieve a compression percentage of .667 in the 2009 |
|
fiscal year plus that which is required to fully fund the school |
|
finance formulas, the excess shall be appropriated to the Texas |
|
Education Agency to increase the salaries of all teachers and other |
|
professional staff as defined by 21.402, Education Code." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 39 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 70 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Hochberg (page 88 |
|
of the prefiled amendments packet) by striking the text on page 1 of |
|
the amendment, lines 5-14, and substituting the following: |
|
___. Limitation on Funding for Property Tax Relief and |
|
Foundation School Program. From the amount appropriated above to |
|
the Texas Education Agency for Strategy A.1.1., FSP-Equalized |
|
Operations, for the 2009 fiscal year, the Commissioner may not |
|
spend more than the amount that, together with all other amounts |
|
appropriated from the Foundation School Fund or another source for |
|
the Foundation School Program or for paying the costs of school |
|
property tax relief, is necessary to achieve a state compression |
|
percentage, as defined by Section 42.2516, Texas Education Code, of |
|
66.67 percent and fully fund the school funding formulas under |
|
Chapters 41 and 42, Texas Education Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 40 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article III of the bill, on page III-21 by |
|
adding the following Rider ___: |
|
"Requirement on the Report of Discrimination. Out of funds |
|
appropriated above for comprehensive annual reports, school |
|
districts shall report annually to the Texas Education Agency any |
|
incidents of alleged discrimination or harassment of school |
|
district employees or students enrolled in the district on the |
|
basis of the actual or perceived ethnicity, color, gender, gender |
|
identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, religion, |
|
or national origin that occurred in the district during the |
|
preceding year. The agency shall include the information in the |
|
comprehensive annual report as required by Section 39.182 of the |
|
Education Code." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 41 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, as follows: |
|
On page III-21, amend the Texas Education Agency budget by adding |
|
Rider # 83 and renumbering accordingly: |
|
"#83. Prohibition on Vouchers. None of the funds appropriated |
|
above may be spent to pay for a public education voucher program, or |
|
a public education voucher pilot program, where state tax dollars |
|
pay for vouchers for children to attend a private school." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 42 |
|
Amend Amendment No. __ to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Heflin (Floor |
|
Amendment packet, page 91) by striking the text of the amendment and |
|
substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article III of the bill following the |
|
appropriations to the Texas Education Agency by adding the |
|
following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
__. Prohibition on Vouchers. It is the intent of the |
|
legislature that none of the funds appropriated above may be spent |
|
to pay for a public education voucher program or a public education |
|
voucher pilot program if the program uses state tax dollars to pay |
|
for tuition vouchers for children in any grades between grade 1 |
|
through grade 12 to attend a private school. This rider does not |
|
prohibit the use of state tax dollars by a public school or charter |
|
school under a contract entered into by the school pursuant to a law |
|
in effect on January 1, 2007. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 43 |
|
Higher Education Coordinating Board |
|
Professional Nursing Shortage Reduction Program |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 03/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The following floor amendment would modify language pertaining to |
|
the allocation of the funds to community colleges and reporting of |
|
data. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page III-49 of the agency's bill pattern, amend Rider 40: |
|
Professional Nursing Shortage Reduction Program. The funds |
|
appropriated under Strategy D.1.12 for the Professional Nursing |
|
Shortage Reduction Program (§ 61.9621-61.9628, Education Code) are |
|
trusteed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to |
|
achieve the following outcomes: 1) increasing the number of |
|
graduates from professional nursing programs, 2) increasing the |
|
percentage of students in professional nursing programs that |
|
graduate within a reasonable time as determined by the board, and 3) |
|
increasing the number of graduates from master's and doctoral |
|
programs in nursing that join the faculty of a professional nursing |
|
program. Funds shall only be used to: 1) create additional nurse |
|
faculty positions, 2) provide temporary salary supplements for |
|
professional nursing faculty, and 3) engage qualified preceptors to |
|
expand faculty capacity. "Professional nursing program" has the |
|
meaning assigned by § 61.9621, Education Code. The funds |
|
appropriated shall be distributed in an equitable manner to |
|
institutions based on increases in numbers of nursing students |
|
graduating. Out of funds appropriated above in Strategy D.1.12, |
|
the Coordinating Board shall allocate up to $1,500,0002,250,000 in |
|
each year of the biennium to community colleges. If the board is |
|
unable to allocate the balance of the funds to general academic and |
|
health-related institutions, it may allocate any unused funds to |
|
community colleges. |
|
An institution is eligible to receive funds appropriated for fiscal |
|
year 2008 only if it commits for fiscal year 2008 to spend funds on |
|
its professional nursing program at least equal to the funds spent |
|
in fiscal year 2007 and for funds appropriated for fiscal year 2009 |
|
only if it commits for FY 2009 to spend funds equal at least to the |
|
funds spent in fiscal year 2008. Funds received under Strategy |
|
D.1.12 shall not be included in these calculations. |
|
Five percent of the funds appropriated under Strategy D.1.12 are |
|
appropriated for administrative expenses as authorized by § |
|
61.9628, Education Code. |
|
The board shall have the authority to transfer funds from Strategy |
|
D.1.9, Professional Nursing Financial Aid, to Strategy D.1.12, |
|
Professional Nursing Shortage Reduction Program, for the purposes |
|
set out in this rider. |
|
Any funds not expended in fiscal year 2008 may be expended in fiscal |
|
year 2009. |
|
The board may distribute a partial payment of the funding in |
|
September of each fiscal year based on preliminary nursing |
|
graduation data. To facilitate data collection, the board may |
|
require that institutions report preliminary nursing graduation |
|
data independent of the regular reporting cycle. After the board |
|
finally certifies the nursing graduation data, the board shall |
|
distribute the balance of the funds to eligible institutions. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 44 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article II of the bill, on page III-52 by |
|
adding the following Rider No. ___: |
|
"Annual Tuition Report. Out of funds appropriated above, the |
|
Coordinating Board shall provide a study on the financial impact of |
|
tuition and fees on students and the families of students who are |
|
enrolled at Texas' public and independent institutions of higher |
|
education. This report shall be provided to the Governor, the |
|
Lieutenant Governor, and all Members of the Legislature by January |
|
1 of each biennium." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 45 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article V of the bill following the |
|
appropriations to the Department of Criminal Justice (page V-9) by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
_____. Commissary Taste Test Contracts. In awarding a bid |
|
for the purchase of commissary food goods, the Department of |
|
Criminal Justice may not use funds appropriated above to conduct a |
|
taste test as consideration for the bid award, unless: |
|
(1) the department contracts with a private marketing |
|
vendor, a university, or another independent organization that is |
|
experienced in food product evaluation and taste tests to conduct |
|
the taste test; and |
|
(2) the taste test results account for no more than 30 |
|
percent of the criteria used for the bid award. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 46 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider in Article V of the bill after the appropriations to |
|
the Department of Public Safety: |
|
___. License Plate Reader Project. The Texas Department of |
|
Public Safety may not spend money appropriated above in Strategy |
|
D.1.5. for the license plate reader project or to purchase and |
|
deploy a license plate reader unless: |
|
(a) the department establishes a policy and procedures |
|
requiring the immediate and systematic destruction of all license |
|
plate information collected through the project that is not linked |
|
in the database system to a stolen motor vehicle; and |
|
(b) the unlinked license plate information is being |
|
systematically purged from the database system. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 47 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 (House Committee Printing) in Article V of the bill, by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider after the |
|
appropriations to the Youth Commission: |
|
___. Appropriations Prohibited for Purposes of Payment to a Sexual |
|
Offender Employee. No appropriations made in this Act to the Texas |
|
Youth Commission may be distributed to any employee of the Youth |
|
Commission that is a mandated by law to register as a sex offender |
|
according to Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 48 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 96 by Martinez Fischer to C.S.H.B. No. 1 |
|
(page 153, pre-filed amendments packet) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article V of the bill by adding the |
|
following appropriately numbered rider following the |
|
appropriations to the Youth Commission: |
|
____. Appropriations Prohibited for Purposes of Payment to |
|
Employee Convicted of a Felony. None of the appropriations made by |
|
this Act to the Texas Youth Commission may be distributed to or used |
|
to pay an employee of the Texas Youth Commission who has been |
|
convicted of a felony offense. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 49 |
|
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department |
|
Proposed Rider |
|
Implementation of State Auditor's Recommendations |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/2007 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would direct the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to |
|
use funds appropriated to implement the recommendations contained |
|
in the State Auditor's An Audit Report on Financial Processes at the |
|
Parks and Wildlife Department Report No. 07-021. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page VI-42 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's bill |
|
pattern, add the following rider: |
|
. Implementation of State Auditor's Recommendations. |
|
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Texas Parks and |
|
Wildlife department (department) use funds appropriated above to |
|
implement the recommendations contained in the State Auditor's An |
|
Audit Report on Financial Processes at the Parks and Wildlife |
|
Department Report No. 07-021. |
|
(b) Additionally, the department shall use funds appropriated |
|
above: |
|
1. To prepare a comprehensive plan and timeline to implement |
|
the recommendations set out in Report No. 07-021, and submit |
|
the plan and timeline to the Legislature and the Governor no |
|
later than August 31, 2007; |
|
2. To submit quarterly and biennial reports to the Legislature |
|
and the Governor that indicate the extent to which each |
|
recommendation contained in the aforementioned plan and |
|
timeline has been implemented, information about |
|
significant costs, and any factors that may impede full |
|
implementation.. Quarterly reports must be submitted 30 |
|
days after each quarter ends; the biennial report must be |
|
submitted by November 30, 2008; |
|
3. To annually report to the State Auditor's Office on the |
|
status of the implementation of the recommendations, |
|
pursuant to Section 321.014(f) of the Texas Government Code; |
|
4. To submit monthly reports to the Legislative Budget Board |
|
and the Governor that identify all facility repair and |
|
constructions projects for which actual costs have varied |
|
from original cost estimates by 10 percent or more at any |
|
point during a project's lifespan; and any related changes |
|
in cost estimate; and |
|
5. To notify the Governor's Office and Legislative Budget |
|
Board at least six months before closing or transferring any |
|
state park. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 50 |
|
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department |
|
Proposed Rider |
|
Implementation of State Auditor's Recommendations |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/29/2007 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would direct the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to |
|
use funds appropriated to implement the recommendations contained |
|
in the State Auditor's Office An Audit Report on Financial |
|
Processes at the Parks and Wildlife Department Report No. 07-021. |
|
Update for 3/28/2007: Amend amendment to add additional |
|
requirements for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) |
|
relating to implementation of the State Auditor's recommendations. |
|
The amendment adds three new sections (6-8) that would make funding |
|
increases recommended by the House Appropriations Committee are |
|
contingent upon TPWD making satisfactory progress in addressing |
|
audit findings, subject to the approval of the Legislative Budget |
|
Board and the Governor. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page VI-42 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's bill |
|
pattern, add the following rider: |
|
. Implementation of State Auditor's Recommendations. |
|
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Texas Parks and |
|
Wildlife Ddepartment (department) use funds appropriated above to |
|
implement the recommendations contained in the State Auditor's An |
|
Audit Report on Financial Processes at the Parks and Wildlife |
|
Department Report No. 07-021. |
|
(b) Additionally, the department shall use funds appropriated |
|
above: |
|
1. To prepare a comprehensive plan and timeline to implement |
|
the recommendations set out in Report No. 07-021, and submit |
|
the plan and timeline to the LegislatureLegislative Budget |
|
Board and the Governor no later than August 31, 2007; |
|
2. To submit quarterly and biennial reports to the Legislature
|
|
Legislative Budget Board and the Governor that indicate the |
|
extent to which each recommendation contained in the |
|
aforementioned plan and timeline has been implemented, |
|
information about significant costs, and any factors that |
|
may impede full implementation.. Quarterly reports must be |
|
submitted 30 days after each quarter ends; the biennial |
|
report must be submitted by November 30, 2008; |
|
3. To annually report to the State Auditor's Office on the |
|
status of the implementation of the recommendations, |
|
pursuant to Section 321.014(f) of the Texas Government Code; |
|
4. To submit monthly reports to the Legislative Budget Board |
|
and the Governor that identify all facility repair and |
|
constructions projects for which actual costs have varied |
|
from original cost estimates by 10 percent or more at any |
|
point during a project's lifespan; and any related changes |
|
in cost estimate; and |
|
5. To notify the Governor's Office and Legislative Budget Board |
|
at least six months before closing or transferring any state |
|
park. |
|
(c) Out of funds appropriated above, the department shall redirect |
|
agency resources to add 16.0 auditor positions in the Internal |
|
Audit Division in order to implement the recommendations contained |
|
in the State Auditor's An Audit Report on Financial Processes at the |
|
Parks and Wildlife Department Report No. 07-021. The department |
|
shall maintain an internal auditing program in compliance with the |
|
provisions of the Texas Internal Auditing Act, which shall |
|
incorporate, at a minimum, the assignment of an internal auditor at |
|
each regional park office. Each internal auditor assigned pursuant |
|
to this provision shall report either directly to the members of the |
|
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission or to the internal auditor |
|
appointed pursuant to Government Code § 2102.006. |
|
An internal auditor whose duty station is assigned pursuant to this |
|
provision may consider suggestions from a Parks Regional Director |
|
in developing proposals for the department's annual audit plan. |
|
(d) The Comptroller may not release $17,294,992 for the 2008-09 |
|
biennium ($8,940,845 in fiscal year 2008 and $8,354,147 in fiscal |
|
year 2009) without prior written notification from the Legislative |
|
Budget Board and the Governor that the department has |
|
satisfactorily implemented the recommendations contained in the |
|
State Auditor's Office An Audit Report on Financial Processes at |
|
the Parks and Wildlife Department Report No. 07-021. The department |
|
should report its progress in implementing the recommendations to |
|
the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor no later than July 1, |
|
2007 and July 1, 2008 before appropriations may be released and |
|
available by September 1 of each fiscal year in the 2008-09 |
|
biennium. |
|
(e) Contingent on the enactment of House Bill 6 or similar |
|
legislation by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, |
|
$6,054,087 in fiscal year 2008 and $7,131,720 in fiscal year 2009 |
|
from an increase in the Sporting Goods Sales Tax allocation to the |
|
State Parks Account No. 64 and $19,568,570 in fiscal year 2009 from |
|
an increase in the Sporting Goods Sales Tax allocation to Parks and |
|
Wildlife Conservation and Capital Account No. 5004 may not be |
|
released by the Comptroller to the department without prior written |
|
notification from the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor |
|
that the department has satisfactorily implemented the |
|
recommendations contained in the State Auditor's Office An Audit |
|
Report on Financial Processes at the Parks and Wildlife Department |
|
Report No. 07-021. The department should report its progress in |
|
implementing the recommendations to the Legislative Budget Board |
|
and the Governor no later than July 1, 2007 and July 1, 2008 before |
|
appropriations may be released and available by September 1 of each |
|
fiscal year in the 2008-09 biennium. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 51 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI, page XI-57, in Strategy D.1.1, strike |
|
"37,072,422" and substitute "27,472,422". |
|
(2) In Article VI, page VI-28, in Strategy D.1.2, strike |
|
2,418,980" and substitute "12,018,980". |
|
(3) In Article VI, Rider No, 22, page VI-34, strike the |
|
second to the last sentence in the rider. |
|
(4) In Article VI, appropriation for the Parks and Wildlife |
|
Department, insert the following appropriately-numbered rider to |
|
read as follows and renumber subsequent riders accordingly: |
|
" . PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF EAGLE MOUNTAIN LAKE STATE PARK. |
|
The Parks and Wildlife Department is appropriated the receipts from |
|
the sale of Eagle Mountain Lake State Park (estimated to be |
|
$9,600,00) for the sole purpose of acquiring other real property |
|
dedicated to the same purpose for which the land sold was |
|
dedicated." |
|
(5) In Article XI, on page XI-66, strike the last rider on |
|
the page. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 52 |
|
Amend Geren Amendment No. ___ (on page 5-4 of the |
|
supplemental amendment packet) to C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) On page one of the amendment, line 2, strike "XI, page |
|
XI-57" and substitute "VI, page VI-28" |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 53 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article VI of the bill, on page VI-36 by |
|
adding the following Rider No. ___: |
|
"Unexpended Balances Within the Biennium. The unencumbered |
|
appropriations from the general revenue fund appropriated to Texas |
|
Parks and Wildlife Department for use during the state fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2008 under Strategy D.1.1. for the Texas Parks and |
|
Wildlife Department (Manage Capital Programs - Improvements and |
|
Major Repairs) are hereby appropriated for the same purpose for the |
|
fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 54 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, as follows: |
|
On page VII-11, amend the Texas Lottery Commission budget by adding |
|
the appropriately numbered rider and renumbering accordingly: |
|
"# . Sale of Lottery. None of the funds appropriated above may |
|
be spent for the purpose of exploring, investigating, negotiating, |
|
calculating, or otherwise taking any action that would result in |
|
selling the Texas Lottery." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 55 |
|
Amend Subsection (c) of Rider 39 following the appropriation |
|
to the Texas Department of Transportation in Article VII of the |
|
General Appropriations Act (page VII-29) to read as follows: |
|
(c) In the event of a federally-mandated funding |
|
rescission, to the extent that the Department of Transportation has |
|
discretion in determining which federal funds will be rescinded, |
|
the Department of Transportation shall apply the total dollar |
|
amount to be rescinded proportionally across all eligible federal |
|
funding categories based on the total amount of unobligated funds |
|
in each eligible category. The Department of Transportation shall |
|
identify unobligated funds as the first source of funds to comply |
|
with a federally-mandated funding rescission [not identify or remit
|
|
any federal Transportation Enhancement funds to comply with the
|
|
federal mandate]. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 56 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 114 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Pickett on |
|
line 7, page 182 of the Floor Amendment Packet, between "shall" and |
|
"apply", by inserting "after consultation with the Legislative |
|
Budget Board and to the extent the department determines is |
|
feasible while still meeting the department's goals". |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 57 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article VII of the bill, on page VII-30, by |
|
amending Rider 20 to add subsection (h.) to read as follows: |
|
"h. All reports to the Legislature outlined in this Rider |
|
and elsewhere in this Act relating to Toll Road and Trans-Texas |
|
Corridor Projects must be delivered to the Legislature in both |
|
paper and electronic formats." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 58 |
|
Committee Substitute for House Bill 1 |
|
Proposed Amendment to Amendment |
|
Required Action |
|
1) Amend floor amendment to Committee Substitute for House |
|
Bill 1 by Leibowitz on page 183 to read as follows: |
|
"Amend CSHB 1 in Article VII of the bill, on page VII-30, |
|
by amending Rider 20 to add subsection (h.) to read as |
|
follows: |
|
'h. All reports to the Legislature outlined in this |
|
Rider and elsewhere in this ACT relating to Toll Road and |
|
Trans-Texas Corridor Projects must be delivered to the |
|
Legislature in both paper and electronic formats and, if |
|
requested, in paper format." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 59 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article VII of the bill following the |
|
appropriation to the Texas Workforce Commission (page VII-30) by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Out of funds appropriated above in Strategy A.2.1, |
|
Skills Development, the Texas Workforce Commission shall allocate |
|
$1,300,000 in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, to a community |
|
college in West Texas for the purpose of supporting the expansion of |
|
instructional capacity, including building start-up costs, to |
|
provide increased training opportunities in welding and welding |
|
fabrication. Any unexpended balances of these funds remaining on |
|
August 31, 2008, may be used by the commission for the fiscal year |
|
beginning September 1, 2008, for the same purpose. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 60 |
|
Department of Transportation |
|
Proposed Rider |
|
Galveston Causeway |
|
Overview |
|
The Galveston Causeway Railroad Bridge (GCRB) is the most dangerous |
|
place on the entire Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, from Brownsville to |
|
Florida. In 2001, the Coast Guard has declared it an unreasonable |
|
obstruction to navigation and set in motion plans to replace it with |
|
a wider bridge offering over 300' of clearance. The new bridge is |
|
under design and the best case estimate for completion of the new |
|
bridge is approximately 2011. |
|
TXDOT plans to remove the fenderworks that protect all three |
|
bridges and facilitate barge transits through this tricky area as |
|
soon as the highway bridges are complete in late 2007, even though |
|
the GCRB will not be widened. This will greatly increase the risk |
|
to marine traffic, all the bridges, the general public and the |
|
environment pending completion of the new GCRB. |
|
This rider continues the current maintenance by TXDOT of the |
|
fenderworks of the Galveston Causeway Bridge. |
|
Required Action |
|
(1) On page ___ of the Department of Transportation's bill |
|
pattern, State Highway Funds in Strategy C.1.31, Gulf Waterway |
|
Contracted Maintenance. |
|
(2) On page ___ of the Department of Transportation's bill |
|
pattern, add the following rider: |
|
. Galveston Causeway. Out of funds appropriated above in |
|
Strategy C.1.31, Gulf Waterway Contracted Maintenance, State |
|
Highway Funds shall be used for the maintenance and preservation of |
|
the fenderworks at the Galveston Causeway. Any unexpended balances |
|
from this appropriation remaining as of August 31, 2007, are hereby |
|
appropriated in the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008, for |
|
the same purpose. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 61 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article VIII of the bill, in Rider 12 |
|
following the appropriation to the Texas Department of Insurance |
|
(page VIII-32), by inserting the following at the end of the rider: |
|
The legislature intends that the website include a list of |
|
each insurer writing residential property insurance or personal |
|
automobile insurance in this state and a description of each type of |
|
residential property insurance and personal automobile insurance |
|
policy issued in the state, including a comparison of the coverage, |
|
exclusions, and restrictions of each policy and a format that |
|
allows a side-by-side comparison of the features of the policy |
|
forms. The website should also include sample rates for different |
|
policyholder profiles in each county or ZIP code. |
|
It is the intent of the legislature that the department |
|
report quarterly to the legislature and the public, beginning with |
|
a report for the quarter ending December 1, 2007, and thereafter not |
|
later than the 60th day after the last day of the quarter covered by |
|
the report the following information for each insurer that writes a |
|
line of insurance in the state: market share, profits and losses, |
|
average rate, and average loss ratio. It is the intent of the |
|
legislature that the report include the change in rate over the |
|
previous 3, 6, 12, 24, and 36 months. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 62 |
|
Amend amendment No. 125 by Martinez (packet page 193) to |
|
C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) On page 1, line 16, strike "60th day" and substitute |
|
"90th day". |
|
(2) On page 1, line 21, strike "3, 6,". |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 63 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 by adding rider No. ___ to Article VII Texas |
|
Department of Transportation: |
|
Heritage Trails Program: Out of the amounts appropriated above, |
|
the Texas Department of Transportation shall make available during |
|
the biennium $8.9 million in federal Transportation Enhancement |
|
funds administered by the department for Heritage Trails program |
|
project whenever such projects are approved by the Texas Historical |
|
Commission's Heritage Trails Program and meet federal funding |
|
requirements of the Transportation Enhancement Program as defined |
|
by U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway |
|
Administration, in federal regulations promulgated under the |
|
authority of Title 23, United States Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 64 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article VIII, insert the following |
|
appropriately-numbered Rider to the appropriation for the Public |
|
Utility Commission to read as follows and renumbering subsequent |
|
Riders accordingly: |
|
"___. COMMISSION STUDY. Out of funds appropriated to the |
|
commission, the commission is directed to develop a proposed |
|
comprehensive electric energy plan that details this state's demand |
|
for electric generation capacity for the next 25 years, the |
|
infrastructure and technology for meeting that demand, and |
|
recommendations for meeting that demand. In developing the |
|
proposed plan, the commission shall consider and discuss policies |
|
and strategies to ensure that fuel resources available to the state |
|
are used in a balanced and efficient manner while taking into |
|
consideration the reliability, economic viability, and |
|
environmental impact of fuels and technologies including, but not |
|
limited to, the following: |
|
(1) Strategies to protect and preserve the environment |
|
of the state while allowing for access to safe, economical, and |
|
reliable sources of energy; |
|
(2) Strategies to ensure that customers of this state |
|
have access to reliable energy; |
|
(3) Transmission, congestion, and transportation |
|
constraints and cost, and strategies to alleviate or prevent those |
|
constraints for sources of energy used to generate electricity; |
|
(4) Electricity generation capacity, reserve margins, |
|
market impact, environmental impact of sources of electricity |
|
generation, and strategies to ensure continued investment in clean |
|
fuels and clean generation technology; |
|
(5) Demand side management and response programs |
|
including but not limited to and cost-effective strategies for |
|
measuring and utilizing energy conservation, interruptible loads, |
|
loads acting as resources, the use of combined heat and power, and |
|
energy efficiency; |
|
(6) Policies to ensure that fuel resources available |
|
to the state achieve reliable supply and are used in a balanced, |
|
efficient, and environmentally conscious manner. |
|
The Commission shall provide a process for coordinating |
|
information with other state agencies and obtaining public input |
|
into developing the plan, and provide a draft of the report for |
|
public comment by September 1, 2008, and submit a final report, |
|
taking into account public input, to the Governor, Lt. Governor and |
|
Speaker of the House by January 15th, 2009." |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 65 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Section 2.01, Article IX (page IX-8), amend the |
|
following classified position to read as follows: |
|
3646 Master Administrative Law Judge I B20 |
|
(2) In Section 2.01, Article IX (page IX-8), add the |
|
following classified position to read as follows: |
|
3648 Master Administrative Law Judge II B21 |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 66 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following rider following Article XI provisions |
|
for the Comptroller of Public Accounts (page XI-4): |
|
Contingency for House Bill No. 3446; Funding for the Promotion of |
|
Texas Manufactured Products. Contingent on the enactment of House |
|
Bill 3446 or similar legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular |
|
Session, 2007, relating to the promotion by the comptroller of |
|
public accounts of Texas manufactured products, and in addition to |
|
other amounts appropriated by this Act, the sum of $125,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the comptroller of |
|
public accounts for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, for use |
|
as provided by that legislation, and the additional sum of $125,000 |
|
is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the comptroller |
|
of public accounts for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, for |
|
the same purpose. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 67 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Department of |
|
State Health Services (page XI-10), add the following rider: |
|
___. Community Primary Care Services: Additional Funds. In |
|
addition to amounts otherwise appropriated to the Department of |
|
State Health Services in Article II under Strategy B.1.4 (page |
|
II-41) for community primary care services, the following amounts |
|
are appropriated to the Department of State Health Services out of |
|
the general revenue fund for the purpose of that strategy: |
|
(1) $8,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August |
|
31, 2008; and |
|
(2) $8,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August |
|
31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and agency totals |
|
(page XI-10) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 68 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Department of |
|
State Health Services (pages XI-10-XI-12), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
_______. Contingency for House Bill No. 3618. Contingent on |
|
the enactment of House Bill No. 3618 or similar legislation by the |
|
80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to the provision |
|
of a coordinated health program for school districts located in the |
|
Texas-Mexico border region, in addition to other amounts |
|
appropriated for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, |
|
2007, the amount of $3,000,000 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to the Department of State Health Services for use as |
|
provided by that legislation during the state fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 69 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by amending the following rider under |
|
the Article XI appropriations to the Texas Education Agency (page |
|
XI-18) to read as follows: |
|
Contingency for House Bill 1002: Intensive Preparation |
|
Academies for High School Assessment Instruments [Exit-Level
|
|
TAKS]. Contingent on the passage of House Bill 1002 by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, or similar legislation |
|
relating to intensive preparation academies to prepare students to |
|
retake [the exit-level] assessment instruments required for high |
|
school graduation [instrument administered under Section
|
|
39.023(c), Education Code,] and in addition to other amounts |
|
appropriated to the Texas Education Agency for the fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007: |
|
(1) $6,292,645 is appropriated to the Texas Education |
|
Agency for fiscal year 2008, for the purpose of providing grants to |
|
school districts to operate intensive preparation academies; and |
|
(2) the unexpended balance of the amount provided by |
|
Subdivision (1) is appropriated to the Texas Education Agency for |
|
fiscal year 2009, for the same purpose. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 70 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, under the Article XI appropriations to |
|
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (pages XI-21 to |
|
XI-22), by adding the following rider: |
|
Contingency for House Bill No. 238. Contingent on the enactment of |
|
House Bill No. 238 or similar legislation by the 80th Legislature, |
|
Regular Session, 2007, relating to the establishment of a bilingual |
|
education certification program, the Texas Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board is appropriated $3,000,000.00 in general |
|
revenue for fiscal year 2008 and $3,000,000.00 in general revenue |
|
for fiscal year 2009 to be used for the bilingual education |
|
certification program. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 71 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Texas Higher |
|
Education Coordinating Board (page XI-22), add the following rider: |
|
Appropriation: Applied Research for Clean Coal Project or Other |
|
Projects Related to Generation of Electricity from Coal. |
|
Contingent on the passage of H.B. No. 2608, or similar legislation |
|
relating to the funding of applied research for a clean coal project |
|
or other projects for the generation of electricity from coal, by |
|
the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, in addition to other amounts |
|
appropriated for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, |
|
2007, the amount of $10 million is appropriated for that biennium |
|
out of the general revenue fund to the Texas Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board for the purpose of funding, as part of the |
|
advanced technology program established by Chapter 143, Education |
|
Code, applied research related to a clean coal project, as defined |
|
by Section 5.001, Water Code, or other projects for the generation |
|
of electricity from coal. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and board totals |
|
(page XI-21) appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 72 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to The University of |
|
Texas at Arlington (page XI-23), add the following rider: |
|
Appropriation: Tejano Voices Project. In addition to other |
|
amounts appropriated to The University of Texas at Arlington by |
|
this Act, the amount of $120,000 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to The University of Texas at Arlington for the state |
|
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, to be used for paying |
|
the costs of operating the university's Tejano Voices Project. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-23) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 73 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to The University of |
|
Texas at Arlington (page XI-23), add the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider: |
|
___. Appropriation: Sustainable Water Supply Research |
|
Center. Contingent on the passage of H.B. No. 1431, or similar |
|
legislation relating to the operation of a Sustainable Water Supply |
|
Research Center at The University of Texas at Arlington, by the 80th |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, in addition to the other amounts |
|
appropriated for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, |
|
2007, the amount of $13,000,000 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to The University of Texas at Arlington for the state |
|
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for start-up and |
|
operational costs of the Sustainable Water Supply Research Center |
|
at the university. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-23) appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 74 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, following the appropriation |
|
to Tarleton State University (page XI-27), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. Environmental Research: Additional Funds. In addition |
|
to the amounts appropriated to Tarleton State University in Article |
|
III under Strategy C.2.1 (page III-82) for environmental research, |
|
the following amounts are appropriated to Tarleton State University |
|
out of the general revenue fund for the purposes of that strategy: |
|
$800,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008; and |
|
$800,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-27) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 75 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to Stephen F. Austin |
|
State University (page XI-33), add the following rider: |
|
Appropriation: Center for Applied Studies in Forestry. In |
|
addition to other amounts appropriated for the state fiscal |
|
biennium beginning September 1, 2007, the amount of $260,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to Stephen F. Austin |
|
State University for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, |
|
2007, and the amount of $260,000 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to Stephen F. Austin State University for the state |
|
fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008, to expand to 43 counties |
|
the Forestry Inventory pilot project administered by the Center for |
|
Applied Studies in Forestry at the university. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-33) appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 76 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to Stephen F. Austin |
|
State University (page XI-33), add the following rider: |
|
Appropriation: Early Childhood Research and Development Center. In |
|
addition to other amounts appropriated to Stephen F. Austin State |
|
University for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, |
|
2007, the amount of $450,000 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to Stephen F. Austin State University for the state |
|
fiscal year beginning September 1, 2007, and the amount of $750,000 |
|
is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to Stephen F. Austin |
|
State University for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, |
|
2008, for the purpose of paying the costs of faculty, research |
|
personnel, and equipment necessary to establish an early childhood |
|
research and development center at the university. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and the university |
|
totals (XI-33) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 77 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to Texas State |
|
University-San Marcos (page XI-37), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Appropriation: River Systems Institute. In addition |
|
to other amounts appropriated for the state fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007, the amount of $808,825 is appropriated |
|
out of the general revenue fund to Texas State University-San |
|
Marcos for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2007, and |
|
the amount of $772,103 is appropriated out of the general revenue |
|
fund to Texas State University-San Marcos for the state fiscal year |
|
beginning September 1, 2008, to provide funds for the groundwater |
|
conservation district assistance project administered by the River |
|
Systems Institute at the university. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-37) appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 78 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the University of |
|
North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (page XI-42), add |
|
the following rider: |
|
Appropriation: School of Pharmacy. Contingent on the passage of |
|
H.B. No. 1746, or similar legislation relating to the establishment |
|
and operation of a school of pharmacy by the University of North |
|
Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth by the 80th Legislature, |
|
Regular Session, 2007, in addition to other amounts appropriated to |
|
the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth |
|
for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, the |
|
amount of $1,500,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue |
|
fund to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort |
|
Worth for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2007, and the |
|
amount of $1,500,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue |
|
fund to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort |
|
Worth for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008, for the |
|
purpose of establishing and operating the school of pharmacy at |
|
adequate facilities in the city of Dallas. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and the health |
|
science center totals (page XI-42) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 79 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations for Public |
|
Community/Junior Colleges (page XI-43), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered item: |
|
___. Dallas County Community College District. In addition |
|
to other amounts appropriated to Dallas County Community College in |
|
Strategy N.2.2. in the appropriations to Public Community/Junior |
|
Colleges in Article III (page III-164), the following amounts are |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Dallas County |
|
Community College District to support Cedar Valley College's Green |
|
Building Program under that strategy: |
|
(A) $25,000 for the state fiscal year ending August |
|
31, 2008; and |
|
(B) $25,000 for the state fiscal year ending August |
|
31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust totals and methods of financing accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 80 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, following the appropriation |
|
to Tarleton State University (page XI-27), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
__. Agriculture Center: Additional Funds. In addition to |
|
the amounts appropriated to Tarleton State University in Article |
|
III under Strategy C.2.2 (page III-82) for an agriculture center, |
|
the following amounts are appropriated to Tarleton State University |
|
out of the general revenue fund for the purposes of that strategy: |
|
$385,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008; and |
|
$385,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-27) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 81 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 under Article XI of the bill, following |
|
the appropriation to the Office of Court Administration, Texas |
|
Judicial Council (page XI-51), by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Contingency for Senate Bill No. 1305. Contingent on the |
|
enactment of Senate Bill No. 1305 or similar legislation by the 80th |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to service of process, |
|
an amount equal to all fees collected under the order or rule of the |
|
supreme court from a person certified by the supreme court to serve |
|
process are appropriated to the Office of Court Administration for |
|
the fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007. Those fees, |
|
estimated to be $205,050 for the fiscal year beginning September 1, |
|
2007, and $111,450 for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008, |
|
shall be deposited to the credit of Strategy A.1.5, Guardians and |
|
Process Servers, and shall be used to support the certification |
|
division of the Office of Court Administration. The number of |
|
authorized FTEs for the biennium for the Office of Court |
|
Administration is increased by 3.0. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 82 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 as follows: |
|
(1) On page XI-53 of the bill pattern for the Comptroller's |
|
Judiciary Section add the following new rider: |
|
CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR HB 1628: Contingent on passage |
|
of House Bill 1628, or similar legislation relating to the creation |
|
of an additional judicial district in El Paso County, by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, the Comptroller's |
|
Judiciary Section is appropriated $68,750 for fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$68,750 for fiscal year 2009 from the General Revenue Fund and |
|
$56,250 for fiscal year 2008 and $56,250 for 2009 from Judicial Fund |
|
No. 573, and 1.0 additional full-time equivalent position to |
|
implement the provisions of the legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 83 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 as follows: |
|
(1) On page XI-53 of the bill pattern for the Comptroller's |
|
Judiciary Section add the following new rider: |
|
CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR HB 1554: Contingent on passage |
|
of House Bill 1554, or similar legislation relating to the creation |
|
of an additional judicial district in El Paso County, by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, the Comptroller's |
|
Judiciary Section is appropriated $68,750 for fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$68,750 for fiscal year 2009 from the General Revenue Fund and |
|
$56,250 for fiscal year 2008 and $56,250 for 2009 from Judicial Fund |
|
No. 573, and 1.0 additional full-time equivalent position to |
|
implement the provisions of the legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 84 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
appropriations to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board |
|
(page XI-22) by adding the following rider: |
|
Allotment for Junior College District Tax Base Decline. In |
|
addition to the amounts appropriated above to the Texas Higher |
|
Education Coordinating Board, there is appropriated to the Texas |
|
Higher Education Coordinating Board from the general revenue fund |
|
in each year of the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2009, an |
|
amount sufficient to provide each junior college district located |
|
in the Texas-Louisiana border region as defined by Section |
|
2056.002, Government Code, in each fiscal year of that biennium an |
|
amount equal to the amount computed by applying the district's ad |
|
valorem tax rate for the 2006 tax year to the greater of: |
|
(1) the amount, if any, by which the total taxable |
|
value of property in the district in the tax year that ends in the |
|
applicable fiscal year is reduced from the total taxable value of |
|
property in the district in the 2006 tax year; or |
|
(2) the amount, if any, by which the total taxable |
|
value of mineral interests in the district in the tax year that ends |
|
in the applicable fiscal year is reduced from the total taxable |
|
value of mineral interests in the district in the 2006 tax year. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 85 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 157 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Merritt (page |
|
227, prefiled amendment packet) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
appropriations to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board |
|
(page XI-22) by adding the following rider: |
|
Report Regarding Junior College District Tax Base Decline. Not |
|
later than September 1, 2008, the Texas Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board shall submit a report to the governor, |
|
lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and |
|
presiding officer of each legislative standing committee and |
|
subcommittee with jurisdiction over public higher education |
|
regarding: |
|
(1) any financial effects of a declining tax base for each |
|
junior college district in this state; |
|
(2) an equalization formula to compensate for the loss of |
|
the taxable value of property or mineral interest in the district; |
|
and |
|
(3) any additional relevant information as determined by |
|
the board. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 86 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 under the Article XI appropriations to |
|
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (page XI-55) by adding the |
|
following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Location of Central Prison Unit in Sugar Land. |
|
Out of funds appropriated to the Texas Department of Criminal |
|
Justice for the fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, the |
|
department shall conduct a feasibility study regarding relocating |
|
the central prison unit and the adjoining prison housing units from |
|
the units' current location in Sugar Land, Texas, to a more suitable |
|
location. During the course of this study, the department shall |
|
examine the costs and benefits associated with relocating the units |
|
and an anticipated timeline if relocation is determined to be in the |
|
best interests of the correctional system and the City of Sugar |
|
Land. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 87 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, under the Article XI appropriations to |
|
the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (page XI-61 through |
|
page XI-62), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. Contingency for House Bill No. 188. Contingent on the |
|
enactment of House Bill No. 188 or similar legislation by the 80th |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to the adoption of |
|
textbooks and the establishment of textbook credits for school |
|
districts and open-enrollment charter schools, the Texas |
|
Commission on Environmental Quality is appropriated $4,387,500 in |
|
general revenue in fiscal year 2009 to be used for the clean school |
|
bus program established under Chapter 390, Health and Safety Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 88 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B., 1 in section XI page 62, the Commission on |
|
Environmental Quality by adding the following rider: |
|
Pecos River Salinity Monitoring Program |
|
Out of the funds appropriated under Strategy A.1.2., Water |
|
Assessment and Planning, the Texas Commission on Environmental |
|
Quality shall conduct water quality monitoring of the salinity |
|
levels in the Pecos River. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 89 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following rider following the Article XI |
|
appropriations to the General Land Office and Veterans' Land Board |
|
(page XI-63): |
|
Texas Veterans Museum. Contingent on the receipt by the |
|
state of federal funds that may be used to establish and construct a |
|
veterans museum in this state, an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the General Land |
|
Office and Veterans' Land Board for the state fiscal biennium |
|
ending August 31, 2009, as matching funds for the purpose of |
|
establishing and constructing a veterans museum in this state. The |
|
amount appropriated by this rider may not exceed the amount of |
|
federal funds received during the biennium for this purpose. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and agency totals |
|
(page XI-63) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 90 |
|
Amendment to HB 1 |
|
On page XI-64 add the following: |
|
Local Park Grant for Beal Park. From funds appropriated above in |
|
Strategy B.2.1, Local Park Grants, the Texas Parks and Wildlife |
|
Department shall allocate up to $1,000,000 of matching funds for |
|
Beal Park construction. |
|
Local Park Grant for the City of DeSoto, Old Nance Farm. From funds |
|
appropriated above in Strategy B.2.1, Local Park Grants, the Texas |
|
Parks and Wildlife Department shall allocate up to $1,000,000 of |
|
matching funds for the City of DeSoto, Old Nance Farm. |
|
Local Park Grant for the City of Lancaster. From funds appropriated |
|
above in Strategy B.2.1, Local Park Grants, the Texas Parks and |
|
Wildlife Department shall allocate up to $200,000 of matching funds |
|
for the City of Lancaster. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 91 |
|
Amend the amendment #163 by Giddings (page 249, HB 1 Prefiled |
|
Amendment Packet) amending C.S.H.B. No. 1, by striking the text of |
|
the amendment and substituting the following appropriately |
|
numbered section and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly: |
|
SECTION ___. Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill |
|
following the appropriations to the Parks and Wildlife Department |
|
by amending the section labeled "Local Park Grants" (pages XI-64 to |
|
XI-65) to read as follows: |
|
Local Park Grants. Contingent on passage of House Bill 6 or similar |
|
legislation changing the limitation of the Sporting Goods Sales Tax |
|
allocated to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), out of |
|
funds appropriated above in Strategy B.2.1, Local Park Grants, TPWD |
|
shall allocate up to $10,135,000 for the following grants: |
|
a. $1,000,000 in matching funds for Townwood Park construction; |
|
b. $60,000 in matching funds for renovations of the Kleberg County |
|
Youth Soccer Complex; |
|
c. $800,000 in matching funds for park construction in Rio Grande |
|
City; |
|
d. $1,125,000 in matching funds for Senator Frank Madla Memorial |
|
Park ($1,000,000 for land acquisition and $125,000 for planning, |
|
development, operation and maintenance); |
|
e. $600,000 for expansion of rehabilitation services at the Gladys |
|
Porter Zoo; |
|
f. $200,000 in matching funds for Raymac Park construction; |
|
g. $600,000 in matching funds for Sylvester Turner Park |
|
construction; |
|
h. $2,000,000 in matching funds for construction of the McAllen |
|
City Park; |
|
i. $500,000 in matching funds for construction at the Sibley |
|
Nature Center; |
|
j. $750,000 in matching funds for construction of the Will Looney |
|
Legacy Park; |
|
k. up to $1,000,000 in matching funds for Beal Park construction; |
|
l. up to $1,000,000 in matching funds for the City of DeSoto, Old |
|
Nance Farm; |
|
m. up to $200,000 in matching funds for the City of Lancaster; and |
|
n. up to $300,000 in matching funds for Armand Bayou Nature Center |
|
Discovery Loop accessibility improvements and building projects. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 92 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, following the appropriations |
|
to the Texas Department of Transportation (page XI-72), insert the |
|
following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
_____. Appropriation: Rural Public Transportation Grants. |
|
In addition to any other amounts appropriated by this Act to the |
|
Texas Department of Transportation, the amount of $3,500,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund for the fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2008, and the amount of $3,500,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund for the fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2009, to the Texas Department of Transportation |
|
to provide funding for rural public transportation grants in rural |
|
communities along the Texas-Mexico border, specifically the Webb |
|
County area and surrounding communities. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and agency totals |
|
(page XI-72) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 93 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI, on page XI-72, strike Strategy B.1.1. |
|
(2) Amend the following rider under the Article XI |
|
appropriations to the Texas Department of Transportation (page |
|
XI-72) to read as follows: |
|
Construction Appropriation: State Highway 34. The [Out of |
|
amounts appropriated above in Strategy B.1.1, Transportation |
|
Construction, the] amount of $11,750,000 is appropriated to the |
|
Texas Department of Transportation in fiscal year 2008 out of the |
|
State Highway [General Revenue] Fund No. 006 to [shall] be used to |
|
finance the construction of a portion of State Highway 34 located in |
|
Kaufman County from SH 243 to FM 2578. |
|
(3) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and agency totals |
|
accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 94 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following rider following the Article XI |
|
provisions for the Texas Department of Transportation (page XI-72): |
|
Contingency for House Bill No. 2599. Contingent on the |
|
enactment of House Bill No. 2599 or similar legislation by the 80th |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, $5 million is appropriated out |
|
of the general revenue fund for the fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2008, and $5 million is appropriated out of the general revenue fund |
|
for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, to the Texas Department |
|
of Transportation to reinstate the Urban Street Program or another |
|
program having the same functions and goals. |
|
(2) Adjust article and agency totals appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 95 |
|
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality |
|
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department |
|
Texas Water Development Board |
|
Proposed Funding and Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 3 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/22/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The proposed rider would provide funding including additional FTEs |
|
to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the Texas |
|
Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and the Texas Water |
|
Development Board (TWDB) to provide technical assistance to the |
|
Basin and Bay Expert Science Teams (BBESTs). The rider would also |
|
provide TCEQ with $250,000 in General Revenue in each fiscal year |
|
for the upgrade and maintenance of water availability models. |
|
Further, the rider would provide the TWDB with $1.3 million in |
|
General Revenue for the 2008-09 biennium to be transferred to the |
|
Water Assistance Fund (WAF) No. 480 to provide funding for the |
|
reimbursement of board-related duties for each of the BBESTs and |
|
the Environmental Flows Science Advisory Committee. |
|
Required Action |
|
In Article XI add the following rider for the TCEQ, TPWD, and TWDB: |
|
___. Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 3. Contingent upon |
|
the passage of House Bill 3, or similar legislation relating |
|
to the management of water resources, including the |
|
protection of instream flows and freshwater inflows by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session: |
|
(a) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is hereby |
|
appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund, in |
|
Strategy A.2.2, Water Resource Permitting, $681,974 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 and $551,974 in fiscal year 2009 to |
|
provide technical assistance to the Basin and Bay |
|
Expert Science Teams and for contract costs associated |
|
with the upgrade and maintenance of water availability |
|
models. |
|
In addition, the Number of Full-Time-Equivalents (FTE) |
|
indicated above for the TCEQ is hereby increased by 5.0 |
|
in each fiscal year of the 2008-09 biennium; |
|
(b) The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is |
|
hereby appropriated out of the General |
|
Revenue-Dedicated Game, Fish and Water Safety Account |
|
No. 9, $122,566 in fiscal year 2008 and $118,776 in |
|
fiscal year 2009 in Strategy A.2.1, Inland Fisheries |
|
Management, and $61,283 in fiscal year 2008 and $59,388 |
|
in fiscal year 2009 in Strategy A.2.3, Coastal |
|
Fisheries Management, to provide technical assistance |
|
to the Basin and Bay Expert Science Teams. |
|
In addition, the Number of Full-Time-Equivalents (FTE) |
|
indicated above for the TPWD is hereby increased by 3.0 |
|
in each fiscal year of the 2008-09 biennium; and; |
|
(c) The Texas Water Development Board is hereby |
|
appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund, in |
|
Strategy A.1.1, Environmental Impact Information, |
|
$696,904 in fiscal year 2008 and $970,902 in fiscal year |
|
2009 of which $525,000 in 2008 and $760,000 in 2009 is |
|
to be transferred to the Water Assistance Fund (WAF) No. |
|
480 to provide funding for the reimbursement of |
|
board-related duties for each of the Basin and Bay |
|
Expert Science Teams (BBESTs) and the Environmental |
|
Flows Science Advisory Committee. The remaining funds |
|
are to be used to provide technical assistance to the |
|
BBESTs. |
|
In addition, the Number of Full-Time-Equivalents (FTE) |
|
indicated above for the TWDB is hereby increased by 3.1 |
|
in fiscal year 2008 and 4.1 in fiscal year 2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 96 |
|
Texas Water Development Board |
|
Proposed Funding and Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 4 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/22/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The proposed rider would appropriate $276,432 in fiscal year 2008 |
|
and $262,432 in fiscal year 2009 in General Revenue and increase |
|
FTEs by 5.0 in each fiscal year to provide administrative and |
|
technical assistance to the newly formed Water Conservation |
|
Advisory Council and to provide oversight and administrative |
|
assistance associated with the development of a statewide water |
|
conservation public awareness campaign. |
|
Required Action |
|
In Article XI add the following rider for the Texas Water |
|
Development Board: |
|
___. Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 4. Contingent upon |
|
the passage of House Bill 4, or similar legislation relating |
|
to water conservation by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular |
|
Session, the Texas Water Development Board is appropriated |
|
$276,432 in fiscal year 2008 and $262,432 in fiscal year 2009 |
|
out of the General Revenue Fund in Strategy A.3.1, Water |
|
Conservation Education and Assistance, to provide |
|
administrative and technical assistance to the Water |
|
Conservation Advisory Council and to provide oversight and |
|
administrative assistance associated with the development of |
|
a statewide water conservation public awareness campaign. |
|
In addition, the Number of Full-Time-Equivalents (FTE) |
|
indicated above for the TWDB is hereby increased by 5.0 in |
|
each fiscal year of the 2008-09 biennium. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 97 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
In Article XI, add the following rider for the Department of |
|
Agriculture: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 407. In addition to the |
|
amounts appropriated above; and contingent on the passage of House |
|
Bill 407, or similar legislation relating to establishing a |
|
home-delivered meal program at the Department of Agriculture, the |
|
Department of Agriculture is appropriated $10,000,000 in each |
|
fiscal year out of the General Revenue Fund in Strategy A.1.1, |
|
Generate Marketing Opportunities, to establish a home-delivered |
|
meal grant program. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 98 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1, in Article XI, by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for Passage of HB 430. Contingent upon |
|
the enactment of HB 430 by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, or |
|
similar legislation related to the Monitoring of High Risk Sex |
|
Offender Registration Compliance. (a) In addition to other amounts |
|
appropriated to the Department of Public Safety in Article V, the |
|
following amounts are appropriated to the Department: |
|
(1) $7,000,000 in general revenue is appropriated for the |
|
state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for contracting |
|
with a provider of Global Positioning Monitoring services to track |
|
statutory compliance by certain high risk sex-offenders of their |
|
duties to register and maintain accurate residence addresses on |
|
file with law enforcement agencies and other such duties as may be |
|
required under state law. |
|
(b) The Department of Public Safety shall use funds for the |
|
purpose specified in subsection (1) of this section only to the |
|
extent authorized by state law. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 99 |
|
Add the following appropriately numbered rider to Article XI: |
|
___. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION: Contingent upon the enactment of |
|
HB 540 by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to |
|
the creation of a hotline to report suspected incidents of impaired |
|
driving or dangerous driving, sufficient money is appropriated for |
|
the operation and creation of the hotline is appropriated to the |
|
Texas Department of Public Safety. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 100 |
|
Add the following appropriately numbered rider to Article XI: |
|
___. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION: Contingent upon the enactment of |
|
HB 1116 by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to |
|
the provision of a community telephone emergency notification |
|
system as part of the 9-1-1 system, sufficient money is |
|
appropriated for the operation and creation of the early warning |
|
notification system to the Texas State Commission on Emergency |
|
Communication. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 101 |
|
Contingency Rider for HB 1 |
|
Article XI |
|
CONTINGENCY FOR HB 1238: Contingent upon passage of HB 1238, or |
|
similar legislation, it is the intent of the legislature that with |
|
the effective date of this act, each institution of higher |
|
education with a student health center that employs at least one |
|
physician working at least 30 hours per week, shall contract with a |
|
third party billing company to begin accepting private health |
|
insurance from students. |
|
Prior to entering into a contract with a third party billing |
|
company, the Higher Education Coordinating Board shall ensure that |
|
each third party billing company contracting with a student health |
|
center has demonstrated competence by getting at least three |
|
recommendation letters from student centers, including one in |
|
Texas. |
|
Should a student health center choose not to contract with a third |
|
party billing company, the institution of higher education shall |
|
have its FY09 general revenue appropriation reduced by an amount of |
|
$17.50 per full time student equivalent as determined by the |
|
Legislative Budget Board in cooperation with Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 102 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI by adding the following: |
|
BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HISPANIC STUDIES |
|
______. Contingency Appropriation: House Bill No. 1430. |
|
Contingent on the enactment and becoming law of House Bill 1430, or |
|
similar legislation of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
creating a Bureau for Economic Development and Hispanic Studies, |
|
there is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Bureau |
|
for Economic Development and Hispanic Studies $295,626 in state |
|
fiscal year 2008 and $270,166 in state fiscal year 2009 for carrying |
|
out the functions of the Bureau for Economic Development and |
|
Hispanic Studies as provided by House Bill 1430, or similar |
|
legislation of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 103 |
|
Add the following appropriately numbered rider to Article XI: |
|
___. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION: Contingent upon the enactment of |
|
HB 1799 by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating to |
|
the appointment and duties of and the funding for an executive |
|
commissioner for the prevention of driving while intoxicated, the |
|
fee created by HB 1799 in Article 102.018(e), Code of Criminal |
|
Procedure, is dedicated to the management and operations of the |
|
office of Executive Commissioner for the Prevention of Driving |
|
While Intoxicated. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 104 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 in Article XI, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE of |
|
the bill by adding the following new subsection: |
|
Contingency for House Bill 1888. Contingent upon passage of House |
|
Bill 1888, or similar legislation relating to the provision of pay |
|
telephone service to inmates confined in facilities operated by the |
|
Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In addition to the allocation |
|
of funds in House Bill 1888, from the funds credited to the |
|
undedicated portion of the general revenue fund, $8,000,000 for |
|
fiscal year 2009 is appropriated to the Texas Department of |
|
Criminal Justice. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 105 |
|
Proposed Rider: |
|
XI. Contingent on the passage of H.B. 2504, the Texas Education |
|
Agency, out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1. , |
|
shall set aside for the biennium $5 million from the Technology |
|
Allotment to fund the Intensive Mathematics and Algebra |
|
Intervention Program. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 106 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
In Article XI, add the following rider for the Texas Education |
|
Agency: |
|
___. Contingency for House Bill 2504. Contingent upon |
|
enactment of House Bill 2504, or similar legislation relating |
|
to an intensive mathematics and algebra intervention program |
|
in public schools, by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, |
|
from funds appropriated above in Strategy A.2.1, Student |
|
Success, for the Student Success Initiative, the Commissioner |
|
shall set aside not more than $2,500,000 in each year of the |
|
2008-09 biennium for an intensive mathematics and algebra |
|
intervention program, pursuant to the provisions of the |
|
legislation. |
|
Any unexpended balances as of August 31, 2008 are hereby |
|
appropriated to fiscal year 2009 for the same purpose. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 107 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
In Article XI, add the following rider for the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 2685. Contingent on |
|
passage of House Bill 2685, or similar legislation relating to |
|
requirements for issuance of a marriage license, including an |
|
optional premarital education course, by the Eightieth |
|
Legislature, Regular Session, the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission is appropriated $2,106,724 in Federal Funds |
|
(Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) for fiscal year |
|
2008 and $4,233,124 in Federal Funds (Temporary Assistance |
|
for Needy Families) for fiscal year 2009 to implement the |
|
provisions of the legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 108 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (house committee printing) as follows: |
|
In Article XI, add the following rider for the Railroad Commission: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 3929. Contingent |
|
upon the final enactment of House Bill 3929, relating to |
|
funding of the Alternative Fuels Research and Education |
|
Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas, and |
|
notwithstanding the limitation on consumer rebate program |
|
spending imposed by Tex. Nat. Res. Code §113.2435(c)(5), as of |
|
August 31, 2008, the Railroad Commission shall carry forward |
|
unexpended amounts that were budgeted for consumer rebate |
|
programs during the previous fiscal year and shall include |
|
these amounts in the Railroad Commission's operating budget |
|
for consumer rebate programs for the following fiscal year, |
|
conditioned on the Railroad Commission reserving no more than |
|
fifty percent of these amounts, to the degree necessary for |
|
operational cash flow. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 109 |
|
Add the following appropriately numbered rider to Article XI: |
|
_____. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION: Contingent upon the enactment |
|
of HB 3965 by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, relating |
|
to duties of a parent in the parent-child relationship to report, |
|
creating an offense and providing a penalty and other family law |
|
matters, sufficient money is appropriated for the operation and |
|
creation of a central registry for child abuse and neglect to the |
|
Department of Family and Protective Services. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 110 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article XI, by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Maximum Security Forensic Hospital. (a) In addition |
|
to other amounts appropriated to the Department of State Health |
|
Services in Article II, the following amounts are appropriated to |
|
the department for construction and operation of a maximum security |
|
forensic hospital at the San Antonio State Hospital or at an |
|
alternative site designated by the department: |
|
(1) $6,000,000 in general revenue is appropriated for |
|
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for |
|
construction of a maximum security forensic facility on the site of |
|
the San Antonio State Hospital; and |
|
(2) $30,600,000 in general revenue is appropriated for |
|
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for |
|
operational expenses related to inpatient treatment for the |
|
severely and persistently mentally ill. |
|
(b) The Department of State Health Services shall use funds |
|
for the purposes specified by Subsection (a) of this section only to |
|
the extent authorized by state law. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 111 |
|
Texas Education Agency |
|
Proposed New Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for Technology Allotment: HB 1632 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
This action would provide a $75 per student Technology Allotment in |
|
FY 2008 and a $100 per student allotment in FY 2009, increasing the |
|
allotment from $30 per student. The increased appropriation would |
|
be $504,900,000 in General Revenue for the 2008-09 biennium. |
|
Required Action |
|
1) On page III-27 of the Texas Education Agency bill pattern, |
|
add the following new rider: |
|
___. Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 1632. Contingent |
|
on passage of House Bill 1632 or similar legislation increasing the |
|
Technology Allotment from $30 per student in average daily |
|
attendance to $75 per student in average daily attendance in fiscal |
|
year 2008 and $100 per student in average daily attendance in fiscal |
|
year 2009, appropriations of General Revenue to the Texas Education |
|
Agency are increased by $195,300,000 in FY 2008 and by $309,600,000 |
|
in FY 2009 to implement the provisions of the legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 112 |
|
Amend Amendment No. __ by Eissler to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 270, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet) by striking "On page III-27 of the |
|
Texas Education Agency bill pattern, add the following new rider:" |
|
and substituting "Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following |
|
rider following the Article XI provision for the Texas Education |
|
Agency:". |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 113 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article XI, by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
__. Appropriation: Mental Health Treatment and |
|
Detoxification Services. In addition to other amounts appropriated |
|
to the Department of State Health Services, $2,000,000 in general |
|
revenue is appropriated to the department in fiscal year 2008, and |
|
$2,000,000 in general revenue is appropriated to the department in |
|
fiscal year 2009, for mental health treatment and detoxification |
|
services provided in the city of Laredo in Webb County through the |
|
local mental health and mental retardation authority serving that |
|
region. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 114 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Appropriation for Mental Health Services. (a) In |
|
addition to other amounts appropriated to the Department of State |
|
Health Services, $100,000 is appropriated to the department for the |
|
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, for the purpose of |
|
contracting with the San Antonio Clubhouse, Inc., for programs to |
|
provide services to persons with mental health disorders. |
|
(b) The contract must require San Antonio Clubhouse, Inc., |
|
to comply with the department's standards regarding the use of the |
|
money, accountability, and reporting. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 115 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article XI, by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Appropriation for Certain Health Care Facilities in |
|
Hidalgo County. In addition to other amounts appropriated to the |
|
Department of State Health Services, $4,000,000 in general revenue |
|
is appropriated to the department for the state fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007, for design and construction of a new |
|
outpatient substance abuse treatment services facility in |
|
Edinburg. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 116 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Department of |
|
State Health Services add the following rider: |
|
Department of State Health Services, Additional Amounts for |
|
Family Planning Services. In addition to other amounts |
|
appropriated to the Department of State Health Services by this Act |
|
that may be used for this purpose, the additional amount of |
|
$10,000,000 is appropriated to the department out of the general |
|
revenue fund for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, |
|
2007, to provide additional family planning services for the |
|
expanded Medicaid Women's Health Program in this state by enabling |
|
the department's contracted family planning services providers to |
|
expand their infrastructure to accommodate the family planning |
|
needs of the increased number of women in this state who are |
|
eligible for covered family planning services. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 117 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Health and |
|
Human Services Commission add the following rider: |
|
Child Health Plan Program Outreach and Marketing. In addition |
|
to amounts otherwise appropriated by this Act, an amount of |
|
$28,000,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund and an |
|
amount of $72,000,000 is appropriated out of federal funds to the |
|
Health and Human Services Commission for the state fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007, for outreach and marketing activities |
|
that promote enrollment in the child health plan program under |
|
Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code. Any funds for this purpose not |
|
expended in fiscal year 2008 may be carried over to fiscal year 2009 |
|
for the same purpose. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 118 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Health and |
|
Human Services Commission add the following rider: |
|
Community Health Center Revolving Loan. In addition to |
|
amounts otherwise appropriated by this Act, an amount of $60 |
|
million is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the |
|
Health and Human Services Commission for the state fiscal biennium |
|
beginning September 1, 2007, to fund loans for community health |
|
centers under Chapter 136, Human Resources Code. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 119 |
|
Add the following appropriately to the rider to Article XI: |
|
___. CONTINGENCY APPROPRIATION: In addition to any other amounts |
|
appropriated by this Act to the Texas Forest Service, the amount of |
|
$20,400,000 is appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund for the |
|
fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, and the amount of $20,400,000 is |
|
appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund for the fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2009 to the Texas Forest Service for the purpose |
|
of funding the Texas Wildfire Protection Plan. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 120 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, add the following rider to the |
|
appropriations for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: |
|
Appropriation from Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Account. |
|
In addition to the amounts appropriated to the Texas Commission on |
|
Environmental Quality from the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan |
|
Account No. 5071 in Article VI of the bill (page VI-10) and in the |
|
contingency appropriation for House Bill 1335 (page XI-62), an |
|
amount equal to the unexpended balance in the account in excess of |
|
those amounts is appropriated to the commission for the state |
|
fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2009, to be used for Strategy |
|
A.1.1 of the commission. |
|
(2) Adjust the article and agency totals (pages XI-1 and |
|
XI-61) appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 121 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1 in Article XI by adding the following rider. |
|
$500,000 in general revenue is appropriated to Dyess Airforce Base |
|
in Abilene, TX. for the state fiscal biennium beginning September |
|
1, 2007, for the repairs to the runway and related purposes. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 122 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill by adding the |
|
following rider following the Article XI provisions for the Health |
|
and Human Services Commission: |
|
Kinship Care Support Program. Contingent on the enactment |
|
and becoming law of House Bill No. 2595 or similar legislation of |
|
the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, that requires the |
|
establishment of a kinship care support program, the Health and |
|
Human Services Commission shall expend, out of funds appropriated |
|
in Article II in Strategy D.1.1, TANF Grants (page II-62), amounts |
|
necessary to develop and implement that program. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 123 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following to Article XI in |
|
the appropriate location: |
|
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION |
|
Contingency for House Concurrent Resolution 143. Contingent |
|
on passage of House Concurrent Resolution 143 or similar resolution |
|
or legislation creating a Commission on Online Learning to perform |
|
specified functions with support from The University of Texas |
|
System Institute for Public School Initiatives, the amount of |
|
$252,671 in General Revenue for the fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2008, and the amount of $212,670 in General Revenue for the fiscal |
|
year ending August 31, 2009, is appropriated to The University of |
|
Texas System to implement the provisions of the legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 124 |
|
Article XI Proposed Funding |
|
Angelo State University |
|
Center for Fine Arts |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, March 26, 2007 |
|
Overview: |
|
Add following motion to Article XI. This motion would appropriate |
|
an additional $370,000 per year to Strategy C.2.2., Center for Fine |
|
Arts at Angelo State University |
|
Required Action: |
|
1. On page III-119 of Angelo State University's bill pattern |
|
increase general revenue appropriations to Strategy C.2.2 |
|
by $370,000 for Fiscal Year 2008 and $370,000 for Fiscal |
|
Year 2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 125 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 199 by Darby to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 295, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet), by inserting the following between |
|
"Required Action" and "I. On page III-19": |
|
Add the following under the Article XI provisions for Angelo |
|
State University: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 126 |
|
Texas Education Agency |
|
Proposed New Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 206 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/23/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would direct the commissioner of education relating to |
|
make an additional transportation allotment to school districts for |
|
transportation of students who would be subject to hazardous |
|
traffic conditions while walking, contingent on passage of HB 206 |
|
or similar legislation. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page III-27 of the Texas Education Agency bill pattern, add the |
|
following new rider: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 206. Contingent upon the |
|
enactment of House Bill 206, or similar legislation by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session relating to state funding |
|
for school districts for transportation of students who would be |
|
subject to hazardous traffic conditions while walking, the Texas |
|
Education Agency is hereby appropriated $________ in Foundation |
|
School Funds in fiscal year 2008 and $________ in Foundation School |
|
Funds in fiscal year 2009 for an additional transportation |
|
allotment under the provisions of that legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 127 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 201 to C.S.S.B. No. 1 by Flores (page 261, |
|
prefiled amendments packet) by striking the line immediately after |
|
"Required Action" and substituting: |
|
Following the Article XI appropriation to the Texas Education |
|
Agency, add the following new rider: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 128 |
|
Texas Education Agency |
|
Proposed New Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 207 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/23/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would appropriate additional funds to the Texas Education |
|
Agency for enhanced allocations per approved route mile through the |
|
transportation allotment, contingent on passage of HB 207 or |
|
similar legislation. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page III-27 of the Texas Education Agency bill pattern, add the |
|
following new rider: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 207. Contingent upon the |
|
enactment of House Bill 207, or similar legislation by the |
|
Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session relating to the |
|
transportation allotment provided under the public school finance |
|
system, the Texas Education Agency is hereby appropriated $_____ in |
|
Foundation School Funds in fiscal year 2008 and $_____ in |
|
Foundation School Funds in fiscal year 2009 for increased state aid |
|
through the transportation allotment under the provisions of that |
|
legislation. |
|
Also contingent upon the enactment of House Bill 207, or similar |
|
legislation by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, the |
|
allocation per mile of approved route for the transportation |
|
allotment, as contained in Rider 5 of the Texas Education Agency's |
|
bill pattern of the General Appropriations Act for the 2008-09 |
|
biennium, is hereby struck and replaced with the allocations per |
|
mile of approved route by linear density grouping established in § |
|
42.155 of the Texas Education Code, as amended by that |
|
legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 129 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 203 by Flores to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 262, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet) by striking "On page III-27 of the |
|
Texas Education Agency bill pattern, add the following new rider:" |
|
and substituting "Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following |
|
rider following the Article XI provisions for the Texas Education |
|
Agency:". |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 130 |
|
Department of Public Safety |
|
Proposed Rider |
|
Rio Grande Valley Border Security and Technology Training Center |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 03/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
This rider would direct the Department of Public Safety to use |
|
$500,000 in General Revenue Funds in fiscal year 2008 and $500,000 |
|
in General Revenue in fiscal year 2009 to establish the Rio Grande |
|
Valley Border Security and Technology Training Center. |
|
Required Action |
|
1) In Article XI of the bill pattern for the Department of Public |
|
Safety, add the following new rider: |
|
____. Rio Grande Valley Border Security and Technology Training |
|
Center. From funds appropriated above in Strategy D.1.6, |
|
State Law Enforcement, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) |
|
shall use $500,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $500,000 in |
|
fiscal year 2009 from General Revenue to establish the Rio |
|
Grande Valley Border Security and Technology Training |
|
Center in Hidalgo County. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 131 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following to Article XI: |
|
COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER STANDARDS |
|
AND EDUCATION |
|
Additional Appropriations for the Commission on Law |
|
Enforcement Officer Standards and Education for the Addition of |
|
Field Service Agents and a Regional Field Service Unit. (a) The |
|
amounts appropriated by this rider are appropriated to the |
|
Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education from |
|
the Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education General |
|
Revenue-Dedicated Account No. 116 for the purpose of adding three |
|
field service agents and instituting a seven-person regional field |
|
service unit. The following amounts are appropriated for the |
|
following strategies as listed under the Article V appropriations |
|
to the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and |
|
Education and are in addition to the amounts otherwise appropriated |
|
under that article for the strategies: |
|
(A) Strategy A.1.1.: $82,860 for the state fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2008; and $81,240 for the state fiscal year ending |
|
August 31, 2009; |
|
(B) Strategy A.1.2.: $82,860 for the state fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2008; and $81,240 for the state fiscal year ending |
|
August 31, 2009; and |
|
(C) Strategy B.1.1.: $41,430 for the state fiscal year |
|
ending August 31, 2008; and $40,620 for the state fiscal year ending |
|
August 31, 2009. |
|
(b) The Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and |
|
Education is authorized to employ an additional ___ full-time |
|
equivalent employees (FTEs) during the period covered by the |
|
appropriation. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 132 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, add the following contingent |
|
rider to the appropriations for the Texas Water Development Board: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 3073: |
|
Administration of National Flood Insurance Program. (a) This rider |
|
is contingent on the enactment of House Bill 3073 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, that |
|
becomes law, transferring authority for the National Flood |
|
Insurance Program from the Texas Commission on Environmental |
|
Quality to the Texas Water Development Board and creating the |
|
floodplain management account. |
|
(b) In addition to other amounts appropriated in this Act, |
|
the Texas Water Development Board is appropriated out of the |
|
floodplain management account: |
|
(1) for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, |
|
an amount equal to 50 percent of the maintenance taxes collected on |
|
gross premiums attributable to insurance against loss or damage by |
|
flood under Chapter 252, Insurance Code, but not to exceed |
|
$2,499,714, to fund the performance of the board's functions under |
|
Section 16.316, Water Code; and |
|
(2) for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, |
|
an amount equal to 50 percent of the maintenance taxes collected on |
|
gross premiums attributable to insurance against loss or damage by |
|
flood under Chapter 252, Insurance Code, but not to exceed |
|
$2,746,065, to fund the performance of the board's functions under |
|
Section 16.316, Water Code. |
|
(2) Adjust the article and agency totals appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 133 |
|
Water Development Board |
|
Proposed Funding and Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation: La Joya Special Utility District Water |
|
Infrastructure Project |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The proposed rider would appropriate $6,238,500 in General Revenue |
|
in fiscal year 2008 to be transferred to the Water Assistance Fund |
|
No. 480 to provide a grant to the La Joya Special Utility District |
|
for a water infrastructure project. |
|
Required Action |
|
1. In Article XI add the following rider for the Water Development |
|
Board: |
|
. Contingency Appropriation: La Joya Special Utility |
|
District Water Infrastructure Project. Contingent upon |
|
the passage of House Bill 479, or similar legislation |
|
relating to the succession of the La Joya Water Supply |
|
Corporation by the La Joya Special Utility District by |
|
the Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, the Texas |
|
Water Development Board is appropriated $6,238,500 out |
|
of the General Revenue Fund in Strategy B.1.1, State |
|
Financial Assistance Programs, in fiscal year 2008 to |
|
be transferred to the Water Assistance Fund (WAF) No. |
|
480, as authorized in Chapter 15, Water Code to fund a |
|
grant to the La Joya Special Utility District for a |
|
water infrastructure project. |
|
Any unexpended balances as of August 31, 2008 out of |
|
appropriations made herein are appropriated to the |
|
Water Development Board for the same purpose for the |
|
fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 134 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following to Article XI: |
|
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES |
|
Appropriation for Interagency Agreement with Health and Human |
|
Services Commission. The following amounts are appropriated out of |
|
the general revenue fund to the Department of Information Resources |
|
to enter into an interagency agreement with the Health and Human |
|
Services Commission to provide independent review and technical |
|
oversight of the Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign System: |
|
$__________ for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008; and |
|
$___________ for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust article and agency totals appropriately. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 135 |
|
Contingent upon the passage of HB 3113 or SB 1659 $12 million |
|
shall be appropriated to the Texas State Railroad Authority. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 136 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 211 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Cook (page 279, |
|
prefiled amendments packet) by striking the text of the amendment |
|
and adding the following new text in Article XI: |
|
Contingent on the passage of H.B. No. 3113 or S.B. No. 1659 by |
|
the 80th Legislature, $12 million shall be appropriated to the |
|
Texas State Railroad Authority. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 137 |
|
Sam Houston State University |
|
Proposed ART. XI Funding and Rider |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The following would add a rider to Article XI. The following rider |
|
appropriates $2,400,000 in General Revenue per year for tuition |
|
revenue bond debt service contingent upon enactment of House Bill |
|
3727 or similar legislation. |
|
Required Action |
|
1. On page III-127 of the Sam Houston State University Bill |
|
pattern increase General Revenue appropriations for |
|
Strategy B.1.2 Tuition Revenue Bond Retirement, $2,400,000 |
|
in Fiscal Year 2008 and $2,400,000 in Fiscal Year 2009. |
|
2. On page III-128 amend the following rider: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill 3727. Contingent |
|
upon enactment of House Bill 3727 or similar legislation |
|
relating to tuition revenue bonds for Sam Houston State |
|
University, $2,400,000 in Fiscal Year 2008 and $2,400,000 in |
|
Fiscal Year 2009 in General Revenue is appropriated for debt |
|
service on tuition revenue bonds. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 138 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 213 by Kolkhorst to C.S.H.B. No. 1 |
|
by striking the text of the amendment and substituting: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following rider in Article |
|
XI of the bill: |
|
Sam Houston State University Tuition Bond Retirement. The |
|
following amounts are appropriated to Sam Houston State University |
|
for Strategy B.1.2. Tuition Revenue Bond Retirement: $2,400,000 |
|
for state fiscal year 2008 and $2,400,000 for state fiscal year |
|
2009. The appropriations made by this rider are contingent on the |
|
enactment and becoming law of H.B. No. 3727 or similar legislation |
|
by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 139 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, by adding the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider in Article II of the bill following the special |
|
provisions relating to all health and human services agencies: |
|
___. Funding Equity Among Local Mental Health and Mental |
|
Retardation Authorities. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature |
|
that the Department of State Health Services and the Department of |
|
Aging and Disability Services shall implement a long-term plan to |
|
achieve equity in state funding allocations among local mental |
|
health and mental retardation authorities. The plan shall be |
|
implemented from fiscal years 2007-2015. The goal of the plan shall |
|
be to achieve equity to the greatest extent possible by fiscal year |
|
2015; however, any funding reductions to a local authority for |
|
achieving equity may not exceed 5 percent of allocated general |
|
revenue in a fiscal year. The plan shall also provide for improving |
|
funding equity to be a priority in distributing any new state or |
|
federal funds that may become available for allocation to community |
|
centers. |
|
(b) In assessing the equity of funding the departments may |
|
use alternatives other than basing equity calculations solely on |
|
the total population served by each local authority. Additional |
|
factors, such as incidence of poverty and the number of uninsured |
|
persons, may be considered if they help to provide a better estimate |
|
of the need for state funded mental health or mental retardation |
|
services in the areas served by each local authority. The |
|
departments shall submit the long-term equity plan to the Office of |
|
the Governor and the Legislative Budget Board by December 31, 2007. |
|
The departments shall include in legislative appropriations |
|
requests a table showing how implementation of the equity plan will |
|
affect projected allocations to community centers at the baseline |
|
current services funding level. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 140 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 231 by Turner to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 55, |
|
pre-filed amendments packet) by striking lines 2 and 3 and |
|
substituting the following: |
|
numbered rider in Article XI of the bill under the Article II, |
|
Special Provisions (page XI-15), as a special provision relating to |
|
all health and human services agencies: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 141 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article VII of the bill following the |
|
appropriation to the Department of Transportation (page VII-30) by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. State Highway 24. Out of funds appropriated above in |
|
Strategy B.1.1, Transportation Construction: |
|
(1) in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, the |
|
Department of Transportation shall allocate $15,000,000 to |
|
complete construction of State Highway 24; and |
|
(2) in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, the |
|
Department of Transportation shall allocate $15,000,000 for the |
|
purpose described by Subdivision (1). |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 142 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 120 by Homer to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by |
|
striking the text of the amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
Article XI provisions for the Texas Department of Transportation |
|
(page XI-72) by adding the following rider: |
|
State Highway 24 Appropriation. The following amounts are |
|
appropriated to the Texas Department of Transportation to complete |
|
construction of State Highway 24: |
|
(1) $15,000,000 in the fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2008; and |
|
(2) $15,000,000 in the fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 143 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article V of the bill following the |
|
appropriations to the Department of Criminal Justice (page V-9) by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
_____. Lamar County Supervision and Corrections Department |
|
Recidivism Reduction Programs. Out of the funds appropriated above |
|
in Strategy A.1.2., Diversion Programs, in each year of the |
|
biennium the department, through the community justice assistance |
|
division, shall grant to the Lamar County Community Supervision and |
|
Corrections Department $250,000 to be used for the expansion and |
|
study of that department's programs intended to reduce recidivism |
|
among individuals supervised by that department, including that |
|
department's horticultural therapy and butterfly cultivation |
|
programs, cognitive behavior programs, and programs that encourage |
|
inmates supervised by that department to receive postsecondary |
|
education. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 144 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 87 by Homer to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by |
|
striking the text of the amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
Article XI provisions for the Department of Criminal Justice (page |
|
XI-56) by adding the following rider: |
|
Lamar County Supervision and Corrections Department |
|
Recidivism Reduction Programs. The Department of Criminal Justice |
|
is appropriated $250,000 in each year of the biennium, to make a |
|
grant, through the community justice assistance division, to the |
|
Lamar County Community Supervision and Corrections Department to be |
|
used for the expansion and study of that department's programs |
|
intended to reduce recidivism among individuals supervised by that |
|
department, including that department's horticultural therapy and |
|
butterfly cultivation programs, cognitive behavior programs, and |
|
programs that encourage inmates supervised by that department to |
|
receive postsecondary education. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 145 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article VII of the bill following the |
|
appropriation to the Department of Transportation (page VII-30) by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. Rural Rail Lines. Out of funds appropriated above in |
|
Strategy B.1.1, Transportation Construction: |
|
(1) in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, the |
|
Department of Transportation shall allocate $8,000,000 to |
|
rehabilitate the rural rail lines and the rail line right-of-way |
|
from Wylie, Texas, to Greenville, Texas; and |
|
(2) in the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, the |
|
Department of Transportation shall allocate $8,000,000 for the |
|
purpose described by Subdivision (1). |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 146 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 235 by Homer to C.S.H.B. No. 1 |
|
(Floor Amendment packet, page 186) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
Article XI appropriations to the Department of Transportation by |
|
adding the following rider: |
|
Northeast Texas Rural Rail Transportation District Rail |
|
Line. The following amounts are appropriated out of general |
|
revenue to the Department of Transportation for the purpose of |
|
rehabilitating the Northeast Texas Rural Rail Transportation |
|
District rural rail line starting in Greenville and ending in Mount |
|
Pleasant: |
|
(1) $8,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2008; and |
|
(2) $8,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 147 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 (House committee printing) in Article |
|
III of the bill, following the appropriations to the Texas Higher |
|
Education Coordinating Board (page III-52), by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
___. Grants to Nursing Education Programs. Contingent on |
|
the passage of H.B. No. 1894, or similar legislation relating to the |
|
provision of grants by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating |
|
Board to nursing education programs, the Texas Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board may use the amount appropriated for the state |
|
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, to the board in |
|
Strategy G.1.2., Earnings-Nursing/Allied Health (page III-39), to |
|
provide grants to nursing education programs as described by |
|
Section 63.202(f), Education Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 148 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 236 by Howard (page 111, prefiled |
|
amendment packet) to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by striking page 1, lines 2-13, |
|
and substituting the following: |
|
XI of the bill, following the appropriations to the Texas Higher |
|
Education Coordinating Board (page XI-21), by adding the following |
|
rider: |
|
Grants to Nursing Education Programs. Contingent on the |
|
passage of H.B. No. 1894, or similar legislation relating to the |
|
provision of grants by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating |
|
Board to nursing education programs, the Texas Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board may use the amount appropriated in Article III |
|
for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, to the |
|
board in Strategy G.1.2., Earnings-Nursing/Allied Health (page |
|
III-39), to provide grants to nursing education programs as |
|
described by Section 63.202(f), Education Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 149 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article III by adding the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to Texas |
|
Tech University: |
|
_____. Relocation of Governor Smith Statue. (a) It is the |
|
intent of the legislature that the board of regents of the Texas |
|
Tech University System exercise its discretionary authority |
|
regarding Texas Tech University under Chapter 109, Education Code, |
|
to relocate the statue of former Governor Preston Smith from its |
|
current location on the grounds of the university to a prominent |
|
location in the vicinity of the entrance to the university at the |
|
intersection of University Avenue and Broadway. |
|
(b) The university may use a necessary amount of funds |
|
appropriated under Strategy A.1.1 for operations support to |
|
accomplish the purpose of Subsection (a). |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 150 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 83 by Jones (page S-3, Supplemental |
|
Prefiled Amendment Packet) to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by striking the text of |
|
the amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI by adding the following |
|
rider following the appropriations to Texas Tech University (page |
|
XI-34): |
|
_____. Relocation of Governor Smith Statue. (a) It is the |
|
intent of the legislature that the board of regents of the Texas |
|
Tech University System exercise its discretionary authority |
|
regarding Texas Tech University under Chapter 109, Education Code, |
|
to relocate the statue of former Governor Preston Smith from its |
|
current location on the grounds of the university to a prominent |
|
location in the vicinity of the entrance to the university at the |
|
intersection of University Avenue and Broadway. |
|
(b) The university may use a necessary amount of funds |
|
appropriated in Article III to Texas Tech University under Strategy |
|
A.1.1 for operations support to accomplish the purpose of |
|
Subsection (a). |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 151 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) In Article XI of the bill, following the appropriation |
|
to Tarleton State University (page XI-27), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
__. Small Business Development Center. In addition to the |
|
amounts appropriated above, the following amounts are appropriated |
|
to Tarleton State University out of the general revenue fund for the |
|
purpose of funding the Small Business Development Center to provide |
|
business counseling, technical assistance, training workshops, and |
|
business plan development for small businesses: $100,000 for the |
|
state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008; and $100,000 for the state |
|
fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and university |
|
totals (page XI-27) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 152 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Under the Article XI appropriations to the Texas |
|
Education Agency (pages XI-17 -- XI-20), add the following |
|
appropriately numbered rider: |
|
_______. Contingency for House Bill No. 1625: Salary |
|
Increase for Certain Professional Public School Employees. |
|
Contingent on the enactment of House Bill No. 1625 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
relating to increased salaries for certain professional employees |
|
of public schools, in addition to other amounts appropriated for |
|
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2007, the amount |
|
of $1,034,800,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund |
|
to the Texas Education Agency for use as provided by that |
|
legislation for the 2008 fiscal year, and the amount of |
|
$1,034,800,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to |
|
the Texas Education Agency for use as provided by that legislation |
|
for the 2009 fiscal year. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 153 |
|
Amend CSHB 1 as follows: |
|
On Page V-53 of the Department of Public Safety bill pattern, |
|
Rider 59, is amended by adding between "operations" and "." on the |
|
first paragraph: |
|
but not for enforcement of title 8 of the United States Code. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 154 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 93 by Chavez to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 141, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet) by striking "as follows:" and |
|
substituting the following: |
|
by adding the following item following the Article XI provisions |
|
for the Department of Public Safety: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 155 |
|
Comptroller's Judiciary Section |
|
Proposed funding and Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for HB 3083 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would add $119,791 in All Funds for the biennium to create |
|
a new district court in Grayson County. The new court would be |
|
created September 15, 2008. This would result in an additional cost |
|
to the bill of $65,885 in General Revenue. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page IV of the bill pattern for the Comptroller's Judiciary |
|
Section, add the following new rider: |
|
_____. Contingency Appropriation for HB 3083. Contingent on |
|
passage of House Bill 3083, or similar legislation relating |
|
to the creation of an additional judicial district in |
|
Grayson County, by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular |
|
Session, the Comptroller's Judiciary Section is |
|
appropriated $65,885 for fiscal year 2009 from the General |
|
Revenue Fund and $53,906 for the fiscal year 2009 from the |
|
Judicial Fund No. 573, and 1.0 additional full-time |
|
equivalent position to implement the provisions of the |
|
legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 156 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 215 by Phillips to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page |
|
278, pre-filed amendment packet), by inserting the following |
|
between "Required Action" and "On page IV": |
|
Add the following under the Article XI provisions for |
|
Judiciary Section, Comptroller's Department: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 157 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following to Article XI: |
|
JUVENILE PROBATION COMMISSION |
|
Contingency Appropriation for Inspection of Facilities. |
|
Contingent on the enactment of House Bill No. 2043 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, that |
|
becomes law, in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated by this |
|
Act, the amount of $1,375,908 is appropriated out of the general |
|
revenue fund to the Juvenile Probation Commission for the fiscal |
|
biennium beginning September 1, 2007, to be used to hire 10 |
|
employees, in addition to the number of full-time employees |
|
otherwise authorized for the Juvenile Probation Commission by this |
|
Act, to conduct and oversee annual inspections at secure, |
|
pre-adjudication and post-adjudication facilities used to detain |
|
juveniles. The 10 employees shall include compliance resource |
|
specialists, not more than one attorney, and other appropriate |
|
personnel. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-1) and agency totals |
|
accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 158 |
|
Proposed Article XI Contingency Rider |
|
Higher Education Coordinating Board |
|
Contingency Rider for HB 2978 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 3/26/07 |
|
Overview |
|
Add following rider to Article XI. Create new rider that, |
|
contingent on passage and enactment of House Bill 2978 or similar |
|
legislation, increases appropriations to the Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board by $5 million per year to fund an engineering |
|
summer program and an engineering scholarship program established |
|
by this legislation. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page III-52 of the Higher Education Coordinating Board bill |
|
pattern, add the following new rider: |
|
____. Contingency Rider for HB 2978. Contingent on passage and |
|
enactment of HB 2978 or similar legislation related to the |
|
establishment of a engineering summer programs and |
|
engineering scholarship program, the Higher Education |
|
Coordinating Board is hereby appropriated $5,000,000 in |
|
General Revenue in fiscal year 2008 and $5,000,000 in |
|
General Revenue in fiscal year 2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 159 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 218 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Morrison (page , |
|
prefiled amendment packet) by striking the two lines immediately |
|
following "Required Action" and substituting the following: |
|
Following the Article XI appropriations to the Texas Higher |
|
Education Coordinating Board, add the following new contingency |
|
rider: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 160 |
|
Comptroller's Judiciary Section |
|
Proposed Funding and Rider |
|
Contingency Appropriation for HB 2486 |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 03/23/07 |
|
Overview |
|
The rider would add $250,000 in All Funds for the biennium to create |
|
a new district court in Wichita County. The new court would be |
|
created September 1, 2007. This action would result in an |
|
additional cost to the bill of $137,500 in General Revenue. |
|
Required Action |
|
On page IV-36 of the bill pattern for the Comptroller's Judiciary |
|
Section, add the following new rider: |
|
____. Contingency Appropriation for HB 2486. Contingent on |
|
passage of House Bill 2486, or similar legislation relating |
|
to the creation of an additional judicial district in |
|
Wichita County, by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular |
|
Session, the Comptroller's Judiciary Section is |
|
appropriated $68,750 for fiscal year 2008 and $68,750 for |
|
fiscal year 2009 from the General Revenue Fund and $56,250 |
|
for fiscal year 2008 and $56,250 for fiscal year 2009 from |
|
Judicial Fund No. 573, and 1.0 additional full-time |
|
equivalent position to implement the provisions of the |
|
legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 161 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 220 by Farabee to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page |
|
275, pre-filed amendment packet) by striking "On page IV-36 of the |
|
bill patter for the Comptroller's Judiciary Section, add the |
|
following new rider:" and substituting "Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by |
|
adding the following rider to Article XI:" |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 162 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered rider under |
|
the Article III appropriations to the Texas Education Agency: |
|
___. Contingency for House Bill No. 2835. Contingent on the |
|
enactment and becoming law of House Bill No. 2835 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
relating to discipline and security in primary and secondary |
|
schools, out of funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, |
|
Foundation School Program -- Equalized Operations, $16,049,055 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 and $21,118,278 in fiscal year 2009 shall be set |
|
aside and transferred to the Juvenile Probation Commission for the |
|
support of students placed in a juvenile justice alternative |
|
education program by court order. |
|
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered rider under |
|
the Article V appropriations to the Juvenile Probation Commission: |
|
___. Contingency for House Bill No. 2835. Contingent on the |
|
enactment and becoming law of House Bill No. 2835 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
relating to discipline and security in primary and secondary |
|
schools, out of funds transferred to the Juvenile Probation |
|
Commission pursuant to Texas Education Agency (TEA) Rider __, the |
|
Juvenile Probation Commission shall allocate $16,049,055 in fiscal |
|
year 2008 and $21,118,278 in fiscal year 2009 for the support of |
|
students placed in a juvenile justice alternative education program |
|
by court order. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 163 |
|
Amend Amendment No. 242 by Strama to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 93, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet) by striking the text of the amendment |
|
and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following rider following the Article XI |
|
provisions for the Texas Education Agency (page XI-20): |
|
___. Contingency for House Bill No. 2835. Contingent on the |
|
enactment and becoming law of House Bill No. 2835 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
relating to discipline and security in primary and secondary |
|
schools, out of funds appropriated to the Texas Education Agency in |
|
Article III, Strategy A.1.1, Foundation School Program -- Equalized |
|
Operations, $16,049,055 in fiscal year 2008 and $21,118,278 in |
|
fiscal year 2009 shall be set aside and transferred to the Juvenile |
|
Probation Commission for the support of students placed in a |
|
juvenile justice alternative education program by court order. |
|
(2) Add the following to Article XI: |
|
Juvenile Probation Commission |
|
Add the following rider following the appropriations for the |
|
Juvenile Probation Commission : |
|
___. Contingency for House Bill No. 2835. Contingent on the |
|
enactment and becoming law of House Bill No. 2835 or similar |
|
legislation by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, |
|
relating to discipline and security in primary and secondary |
|
schools, out of funds transferred to the Juvenile Probation |
|
Commission pursuant to a Texas Education Agency (TEA) Rider, the |
|
Juvenile Probation Commission shall allocate $16,049,055 in fiscal |
|
year 2008 and $21,118,278 in fiscal year 2009 for the support of |
|
students placed in a juvenile justice alternative education program |
|
by court order. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 164 |
|
Article IX |
|
Sec. 3.05. Scheduled Exempt Positions |
|
Exempt Salary Group Changes and Addition of Positions |
|
Overview |
|
Changes to the exempt salary groups for select commissioner and |
|
executive director positions indicated in the schedule of exempt |
|
salaries would allow the Governor to authorize a salary which is |
|
commensurate with their experience and management |
|
responsibilities. The addition of the Executive Director positions |
|
for the Public Finance Authority and the Department of Information |
|
Resources would allow the Governor to authorize salaries |
|
commensurate with the professional background and experience |
|
necessary to keep qualified individuals in these positions. |
|
Furthermore, the state would be able to attract qualified |
|
individuals to apply for these Executive Director positions when |
|
they are unfilled because the state would be able to negotiate with |
|
qualified individuals if the Governor were able to set the salary. |
|
Required Action |
|
On Page IX-19 of General Provisions, Sec. 3.05, Scheduled Exempt |
|
Positions, amend the exempt salary groups for the Adjutant General |
|
from 4 to 5, Presiding Officer of the Board of Pardons and Paroles |
|
from 3 to 4, three TCEQ Commissioners from 5 to 6, TDHCA Executive |
|
Director from 4 to 5, one TWC Commissioner from 4 to 6, Chief |
|
Administrative Law Judge from 3 to 5, and three PUC Commissioners |
|
from 4 to 6; amend the title of the HHSC Commissioner to Executive |
|
Commissioner; and add the TPFA Executive Director at Group 4 and DIR |
|
Executive Director at Group 6 to the list of exempt positions. |
|
(3) Agency PositionSalary Group |
|
|
1. Fire Fighters' Pension Commissioner: |
|
Commissioner |
|
Group 1; |
|
|
|
2. Secretary of State: |
|
Secretary of State |
|
Group 4; |
|
|
|
3. Office of State-Federal Relations: |
|
Executive Director |
|
Group 3; |
|
|
|
4. Health and Human Services Commission |
|
ExecutiveCommissioner |
|
Group 6; |
|
|
|
5. Texas Education Agency: |
|
Commissioner of Education |
|
Group 6; |
|
|
|
6. Adjutant General's Department: |
|
Adjutant General |
|
Group 45; |
|
|
|
7. Texas Department of Criminal Justice: |
|
Presiding Officer, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Board of Pardons and Paroles |
|
Group 34; |
|
|
|
8. Texas Department of Criminal Justice: |
|
Parole Board Members (6) |
|
Group 3; |
|
|
|
9. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: |
|
Commissioners (3) |
|
Group 56; |
|
|
|
10. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs: |
|
Executive Director |
|
Group 45; |
|
|
|
11. Texas Workforce Commission: |
|
Commissioners (31) |
|
Group 46; |
|
|
|
12. Texas Workforce Commission: |
|
Commissioners (2) |
|
Group 4; |
|
|
|
13. State Office of Administrative Hearings: |
|
Chief Administrative Law Judge |
|
Group 35; |
|
|
|
14. Texas Department of Insurance: |
|
Commissioner of Insurance |
|
Group 6; |
|
|
|
15. Office of Public Insurance Counsel: |
|
Public Counsel |
|
Group 3; |
|
|
|
16. Public Utility Commission of Texas: |
|
Commissioners (3) |
|
Group 46; |
|
|
|
17. Office of Public Utility Counsel: |
|
Public Counsel |
|
Group 34; |
|
|
|
|
|
18. Bond Review Board: |
|
Executive Director |
|
Group 3. |
|
|
|
19. Texas Public Finance Authority: |
|
Executive Director |
|
Group 4; |
|
|
|
|
|
20. Department of Information Resources: |
|
Executive Director |
|
Group 6. |
|
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 165 |
|
Amend amendment No. 243 by Gattis to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 199, |
|
prefiled amendment packet), by striking the text of the amendment |
|
and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI, following the Article IX |
|
provisions for Article XI (page XI-78) by adding the following |
|
rider: |
|
Scheduled Exempt Positions. Under Section 3.05, Scheduled |
|
Exempt Positions under the Article IX general provisions: |
|
(1) change the exempt salary groups for the Adjutant General |
|
from 4 to 5, for the Presiding Officer of the Board of Pardons and |
|
Paroles from 3 to 4, for the three Texas Commission Environmental |
|
Quality Commissioners from 5 to 6, for the Texas Department Housing |
|
and Community Affairs Executive Director from 4 to 5, for one Texas |
|
Workforce Commission Commissioner from 4 to 6, for the Chief |
|
Administrative Law Judge from 3 to 5, for the Office of Public |
|
Utility Counsel Public Counsel from 3 to 4, and for the three Public |
|
Utility Commission of Texas Commissioners from 4 to 6; |
|
(2) amend the title of the Health and Human Services |
|
Commission Commissioner to Executive Commissioner; and |
|
(3) add the Texas Public Finance Authority Executive |
|
Director at Group 4 and Department of Information Resources |
|
Executive Director at Group 6 to the list of exempt positions. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 166 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article VIII of the bill, by adding |
|
the following appropriately numbered rider following the |
|
appropriations to the Department of Insurance: |
|
___. Report to Legislature by Division of Workers' |
|
Compensation of Certain Information Regarding Employers Not |
|
Covered by Workers' Compensation Insurance. (a) Out of funds |
|
appropriated above to the division of workers' compensation of the |
|
Texas Department of Insurance, the division shall report annually |
|
to the legislature any information collected by the division |
|
regarding: |
|
(1) the compliance of employers who do not obtain or |
|
otherwise provide workers' compensation insurance coverage with |
|
any notice requirements imposed by Subchapter A, Chapter 406, Labor |
|
Code; |
|
(2) any administrative penalties assessed under |
|
Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code, or rules adopted under that |
|
subtitle against employers described by Subdivision (1) for failure |
|
to comply with the notice requirements; |
|
(3) the compliance of employers who do not obtain or |
|
otherwise provide workers' compensation insurance coverage with |
|
the reporting requirements of Section 411.032, Labor Code; and |
|
(4) any administrative penalties assessed under |
|
Section 411.032, Labor Code, against an employer described by |
|
Subdivision (3) for failure to comply with the reporting |
|
requirements. |
|
(b) The division may make the report required under |
|
Subsection (a) as part of the department's annual report under |
|
Section 32.021, Insurance Code, or as a separate report. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 167 |
|
Amend Amendment No. __ to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Villareal (Page |
|
194, pre-filed amendment package) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following rider following |
|
the Article XI provisions for the Department of Insurance (page |
|
XI-74): |
|
Report to Legislature by Division of Workers' Compensation of |
|
Certain Information Regarding Employers Not Covered by Workers' |
|
Compensation Insurance. (a) Out of funds appropriated to the |
|
division of workers' compensation of the Texas Department of |
|
Insurance in Article VIII of this Act, the division shall report |
|
annually to the legislature any information collected by the |
|
division regarding: |
|
(1) the compliance of employers who do not obtain or |
|
otherwise provide workers' compensation insurance coverage with |
|
any notice requirements imposed by Subchapter A, Chapter 406, Labor |
|
Code; |
|
(2) any administrative penalties assessed under |
|
Subtitle A, Title 5, Labor Code, or rules adopted under that |
|
subtitle against employers described by Subdivision (1) for failure |
|
to comply with the notice requirements; |
|
(3) the compliance of employers who do not obtain or |
|
otherwise provide workers' compensation insurance coverage with |
|
the reporting requirements of Section 411.032, Labor Code; and |
|
(4) any administrative penalties assessed under |
|
Section 411.032, Labor Code, against an employer described by |
|
Subdivision (3) for failure to comply with the reporting |
|
requirements. |
|
(b) The division may make the report required under |
|
Subsection (a) as part of the department's annual report under |
|
Section 32.021, Insurance Code, or as a separate report. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 168 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 35 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Anchia by |
|
striking the text of the amendment and substituting: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
Article XI appropriations to the Department of State Health |
|
Services (page XI-12) by adding the following rider: |
|
Contingency for House Bill No. 1883. Contingent on House |
|
Bill No. 1883, 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, or similar |
|
legislation passing and becoming law, the Department of State |
|
Health Services is appropriated $8,000 in general revenue for the |
|
state fiscal year ending August 31, 2008, and $8,000 in general |
|
revenue for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2009, to pay |
|
related expenses of the Department of State Health Services. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 169 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. 1 as follows: |
|
Take $32.5 million out of strategy C.1.1 to fund the |
|
following: |
|
Fiscal Year ending 8/31/2008 - $16.25 million to fund an |
|
additional 94 Department of Public Safety Officers assigned to |
|
Border Security. |
|
Fiscal Year ending 8/31/2009 - $16.25 million to fund an |
|
additional 94 Department of Public Safety Officers assigned to |
|
Border Security. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 170 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 90 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Parker |
|
(Floor Amendment Packet, page 136) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article XI, as follows: |
|
(1) Add the following rider following the appropriations to |
|
the Department of Public Safety (page XI-58): |
|
Additional Officers. The following amounts are appropriated |
|
to the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide funding for an |
|
additional 171 Department of Public Safety officers assigned to |
|
border security: |
|
(1) $16.25 million from general revenue for the state fiscal |
|
year ending August 31, 2008; and |
|
(2) $16.25 million from general revenue for the state fiscal |
|
year ending August 31, 2009. |
|
(2) Adjust the article totals and methods of financing |
|
accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 171 |
|
Amend Committee Substitute House Bill 1 by the following: |
|
On Page V-42 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern: |
|
delete Strategy D.1.5, Local Law Enforcement, and reduce General |
|
Revenue appropriations by $37,842,776 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
32,143,474 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
delete Strategy D.1.6, State Law Enforcement, and reduce General |
|
Revenue appropriations by $3,993,014 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$3,609,337 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
delete Strategy D.1.7, State Aviation Support, and reduce General |
|
Revenue appropriations by $20,292,630 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$1,900,000 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
decrease the number of Full-Time-Equivalent positions by fifty-one |
|
in both fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy D.1.6, State Law |
|
Enforcement; and |
|
decrease the number of Full-Time-Equivalent positions by nine in |
|
both fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy D.1.7, State Aviation |
|
Support. |
|
On Page V-42 and V-43 of the Department of Public Safety's bill |
|
pattern: |
|
increase General Revenue Appropriations for Strategy A.1, Highway |
|
Patrol, by $ $6,873,997 in fiscal year 2008 and $3,487,067 in fiscal |
|
year 2009; |
|
add a new strategy, A.1.6, Homeland Security Local Law Enforcement |
|
Support, and increase General Revenue Appropriations by |
|
$22,529,604 in fiscal year 2008 and $17,603,420 in fiscal year |
|
2009; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy .D.1.2, |
|
Response Coordination, by $3,650,000 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.5, Crime |
|
Records, by $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.8, |
|
Recruit Schools, by $1,441,420 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.9, Fleet |
|
Operations, by $1,989,548 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.10, |
|
Aircraft Operations, by $20,328,877 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$2,495,814 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 51 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy A.1.1, Highway Patrol; and |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 9 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy F.1.10, Aircraft Operations; |
|
On Page V-45 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern amend |
|
Rider 2, Capital Budget, to include the following capital budget |
|
items financed with General Revenue funds: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Helicopters $11,424,772
|
|
$16,577,027 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
Joint Operations and Intelligence Centers |
|
$3,650,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
License Plate Reader |
|
$2,000,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
On Page V-53 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern; |
|
delete rider 59 and replace with the following rider. |
|
59. Border Security Funding and Reporting Requirements. Out of the
|
|
amounts appropriated in Strategy D.1.55, Local Law
|
|
Enforcement, the Governor's Divisions of Emergency Management
|
|
in the Department of Public Safety (DPS) shall provide grants
|
|
to local law enforcement agencies for salaries, training,
|
|
operating costs, and equipment for new commissioned officers. |
|
The grant funds can be used for payment of overtime and per
|
|
diem for local law enforcement officers, DPS officers and
|
|
Parks & Wildlife game wardens. The grant funds can also be
|
|
used for operating costs, technology, and equipment for
|
|
border security operations.
|
|
The Department of Public Safety shall use the amount
|
|
appropriated in Strategy D.1.6., State Law Enforcement, for
|
|
salaries, training, operating costs, and equipment for DPS
|
|
officers.
|
|
The Department of Public Safety shall use the amounts
|
|
appropriated in Strategy D.1.7, State Aviation Support, for
|
|
the purchase of four helicopters an operating costs for
|
|
helicopters.
|
|
Within 90 days following the end of each fiscal year, the
|
|
Governor's Director of Homeland Security shall provide a
|
|
report to the Governor and the Legislature that justifies the
|
|
continued operations for the border security operations.
|
|
___. Homeland Security Funding and Reporting Requirements. |
|
The Department of Public Safety shall utilize 51 state |
|
troopers, 9 pilots, and 4 helicopters to conduct enhanced |
|
Homeland Security operations. |
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, Highway |
|
Patrol, $1,023,840 in fiscal year 2008 and $341,280 in fiscal |
|
year 2009 is reserved to pay state troopers who participate in |
|
Homeland Security operations overtime. $2,252,415 for the |
|
biennium is reserved to pay 51 state troopers who participate |
|
in Homeland Security operations a daily per diem amount |
|
allowed under Article IX, Section 5.06. |
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.6. |
|
Homeland Security Local Law Enforcement, the Department of |
|
Public shall provide grants to local law enforcement agencies |
|
for salaries, training, operation costs and equipment for new |
|
commissioned officers. Grants provided under Strategy A.1.6 |
|
shall be used to fund local law enforcement for Homeland |
|
Security operations and shall not be used to contract with |
|
private law enforcement entities. |
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy F.10, Aviation |
|
Operations, $272,160 in fiscal year 2008 and $90,720 in fiscal |
|
year 2009 is reserved to pay pilots who participate in |
|
Homeland Security operations overtime. $361,350 for the |
|
biennium is reserved to pay 9 pilots who participate in |
|
Homeland Security operations a daily per diem amount allowed |
|
under Article IX, Section 5.06. |
|
Within 90 days following the end of each fiscal year, the |
|
Governor's Director of Homeland Security shall provide a |
|
report to the Governor and Legislature justifying operations, |
|
including disbursed grant amounts to local law enforcement |
|
agencies and actual number of commissioned officers hired by |
|
local law enforcement agencies. |
|
On Page V-2 and V-3 of the Adjutant General's Department bill |
|
pattern: |
|
create a new strategy, C.1.5, Homeland Security State Guard |
|
Operations, and increase General Revenue appropriations by |
|
$13,792,132 for fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 74 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy C.1.5, Homeland Security |
|
State Guard Operations; and |
|
amend Rider 2, Capital Budget, to include the following capital |
|
budget items financed with General Revenue funds: |
|
|
|
C. Transportation Items |
|
|
(1) Vehicles |
|
$2,068,638 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
(2) Helicopters (2) |
|
$4,338,616 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
|
(3) HEMMT Tanker |
|
$147,825 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
On Page VI-27 and VI-28 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's |
|
bill pattern, delete Strategy C.1.4, State Law Enforcement, reduce |
|
General Revenue appropriations by $1,270,793 in fiscal year 2008 |
|
and $854,400 in fiscal year 2009, and decrease the number of |
|
Full-Time-Equivalent positions by fifteen in both fiscal years 2008 |
|
and 2009. |
|
On Page VI-27 and VI-28 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's |
|
bill pattern: |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy C.1.2, Warden |
|
Training Academy, by $493,750 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 8.8 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 in Strategy C.1.2, Warden Training Academy; and |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy C.1.1, |
|
Enforcement Programs, by $1,308,875 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$1,030,301 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 6.2 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 and 15 in fiscal year 2009 in Strategy C.1.2, |
|
Warden Training Academy. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 172 |
|
Amend Committee Substitute House Bill 1 by the following: |
|
On Page V-42 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern: |
|
delete Strategy D.1.5, Local Law Enforcement, and reduce General
|
|
Revenue appropriations by $37,842,776 in fiscal year 2008 and
|
|
32,143,474 in fiscal year 2009;
|
|
delete Strategy D.1.6, State Law Enforcement, and reduce General |
|
Revenue appropriations by $3,993,014 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$3,609,337 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
delete Strategy D.1.7, State Aviation Support, and reduce General |
|
Revenue appropriations by $20,292,630 in fiscal year 2008 and |
|
$1,900,000 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
decrease the number of Full-Time-Equivalent positions by fifty-one |
|
in both fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy D.1.6, State Law |
|
Enforcement; and |
|
decrease the number of Full-Time-Equivalent positions by nine in |
|
both fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy D.1.7, State Aviation |
|
Support. |
|
On Page V-42 and V-43 of the Department of Public Safety's bill |
|
pattern: |
|
increase General Revenue Appropriations for Strategy A.1, Highway |
|
Patrol, by $6,873,997 $2,124,514 in fiscal year 2008 and $3,487,067 |
|
$3,609,337 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
add a new strategy, A.1.6, Homeland Security Local Law Enforcement
|
|
Support, and increase General Revenue Appropriations by
|
|
$22,529,604 in fiscal year 2008 and $17,603,420 in fiscal year
|
|
2009;
|
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy D.1.2,
|
|
Response Coordination, by $3,650,000 in fiscal year 2008;
|
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.5, Crime
|
|
Records, by $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2008;
|
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.8, |
|
Recruit Schools, by $1,441,420$840,123 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.9, Fleet |
|
Operations, by $1,989,548$1,028,377 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy F.1.10, |
|
Aircraft Operations, by $20,328,877 $20,292,630 in fiscal year 2008 |
|
and $2,495,814 $1,900,000 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 51 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy A.1.1, Highway Patrol; and |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 9 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy F.1.10, Aircraft Operations; |
|
On Page V-45 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern amend |
|
Rider 2, Capital Budget, to include the following capital budget |
|
items financed with General Revenue funds: |
|
|
|
Vehicles |
$1,989,548
|
$1,028,417 |
0 |
|
|
Helicopters $11,424,772
|
$16,577,027
|
$18,867,630 |
UB |
|
|
Joint Operations and Intelligence Centers |
$3,650,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
License Plate Reader |
$2,000,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
|
|
|
On Page V-53 of the Department of Public Safety's bill pattern; |
|
delete rider 59 and replace with the following rider. |
|
59. Border Security Funding and Reporting Requirements. Out of |
|
the amounts appropriated in Strategy D.1.55, Local Law |
|
Enforcement, the Governor's Divisions of Emergency Management |
|
in the Department of Public Safety (DPS) shall provide grants |
|
to local law enforcement agencies for salaries, training, |
|
operating costs, and equipment for new commissioned officers. |
|
The grant funds can be used for payment of overtime and per |
|
diem for local law enforcement officers, DPS officers and |
|
Parks & Wildlife game wardens. The grant funds can also be |
|
used for operating costs, technology, and equipment for |
|
border security operations. |
|
The Department of Public Safety shall use the amount
|
|
appropriated in Strategy D.1.6., State Law Enforcement, for
|
|
salaries, training, operating costs, and equipment for DPS
|
|
officers.
|
|
The Department of Public Safety shall use the amounts
|
|
appropriated in Strategy D.1.7., State Aviation Support, for
|
|
the purchase of four helicopters an operating costs for
|
|
helicopters.
|
|
Within 90 days following the end of each fiscal year, the
|
|
Governor's Director of Homeland Security shall provide a
|
|
report to the Governor and the Legislature that justifies the
|
|
continued operations for the border security operations.
|
|
Homeland Security Funding and Reporting Requirements.
|
|
The Department of Public Safety shall utilize 51 state
|
|
troopers, 9 pilots, and 4 helicopters to conduct enhanced
|
|
Homeland Security operations.
|
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, Highway
|
|
Patrol, $1,023,840 in fiscal year 2008 and $341,280 in fiscal
|
|
year 2009 is reserved to pay state troopers who participate in
|
|
Homeland Security operations overtime. $2,252,415 for the
|
|
biennium is reserved to pay 51 state troopers who participate
|
|
in Homeland Security operations a daily per diem amount
|
|
allowed under Article IX, Section 5.06.
|
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.6.
|
|
Homeland Security Local Law Enforcement, the Department of
|
|
Public shall provide grants to local law enforcement agencies
|
|
for salaries, training, operation costs and equipment for new
|
|
commissioned officers. Grants provided under Strategy A.1.6
|
|
shall be used to fund local law enforcement for Homeland
|
|
Security operations and shall not be used to contract with
|
|
private law enforcement entities.
|
|
Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy F.10, Aviation
|
|
Operations, $272,160 in fiscal year 2008 and $90,720 in fiscal
|
|
year 2009 is reserved to pay pilots who participate in
|
|
Homeland Security operations overtime. $361,350 for the
|
|
biennium is reserved to pay 9 pilots who participate in
|
|
Homeland Security operations a daily per diem amount allowed
|
|
under Article IX, Section 5.06.
|
|
Within 90 days following the end of each fiscal year, the |
|
Governor's Director of Homeland Security shall provide a |
|
report to the Governor and Legislature justifying operations, |
|
including disbursed grant amounts to local law enforcement |
|
agencies and actual number of commissioned officers hired by |
|
local law enforcement agencies. |
|
On Page V-2 and V-3XI-53 of the Adjutant General's Department bill |
|
pattern in Article 11: |
|
create a new strategy, C.1.5, Homeland Security State Guard |
|
Operations, and increase General Revenue appropriations by |
|
$13,792,132 for fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 74 in both |
|
fiscal years 2008 and 2009 in Strategy C.1.5, Homeland Security |
|
State Guard Operations; and |
|
amend Rider 2, Capital Budget, to include the following capital |
|
budget items financed with General Revenue funds: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) Vehicles |
|
$2,068,638 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
(2) Helicopters (2) |
|
$4,338,616 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
|
|
(3) HEMMT Tanker |
|
$147,825 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
On Page VI-27 and VI-28 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's |
|
bill pattern, delete Strategy C.1.4, State Law Enforcement, reduce |
|
General Revenue appropriations by $1,270,793 in fiscal year 2008 |
|
and $854,400 in fiscal year 2009, and decrease the number of |
|
Full-Time-Equivalent positions by fifteen in both fiscal years 2008 |
|
and 2009. |
|
On page VI-27 and VI-28 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's |
|
bill pattern: |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy C.1.2, Warden |
|
Training Academy, by $493,750$413,693 in fiscal year 2008; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 8.8 15 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 in Strategy C.1.2, Warden Training Academy; and |
|
increase General Revenue appropriations for Strategy C.1.1, |
|
Enforcement Programs, by $1,308,875$857,100 in fiscal year 2008 |
|
and $1,030,301$834,400 in fiscal year 2009; |
|
increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent positions by 6.215 in |
|
fiscal year 2008 and 15 in fiscal year 2009 in Strategy C.1.21. |
|
Warden Training Academy. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 173 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 91 by Noriega as amended by Floor |
|
Amendment No. 92 by Isett by striking "On Page V-42 of the |
|
Department of Public Safety's bill pattern:" and substituting the |
|
following: |
|
Add the following under the Article XI provisions for the |
|
Department of Public Safety: |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 174 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article V of the bill as follows: |
|
(1) Following the appropriations to the Department of |
|
Criminal Justice (page V-9), add the following appropriately |
|
numbered rider: |
|
_____. GPS Monitoring Pilot Program. For each year in the |
|
biennium beginning September 1, 2007, the department shall use |
|
$1,000,000 out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.2, |
|
Diversion Programs, and $1,000,000 out of the funds appropriated |
|
above in Strategy E.2.1, Parole Supervision, to establish a pilot |
|
program that uses active, real-time global positioning satellite |
|
tracking devices to monitor a cumulative total of 500 individuals |
|
who are on community supervision or who have been released from the |
|
department to parole. The pilot program must evaluate the |
|
effectiveness of using active, real-time global positioning |
|
satellite devices to enhance public safety by tracking individuals |
|
who are on community supervision or have been released from the |
|
department to parole. The department shall employ 8 |
|
Full-Time-Equivalents in addition to those listed above to operate |
|
the pilot program. |
|
(2) Adjust the number of Full-Time-Equivalents employed by |
|
the Department of Criminal Justice (page V-9) accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 175 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 86 by Turner to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page |
|
__ prefiled amendments packet) by striking the text of the |
|
amendment and substituting: |
|
(1) Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 by adding the following rider to |
|
Article XI of the bill following the Article XI provisions for the |
|
Texas Department of Criminal Justice: |
|
GPS Monitoring Pilot Program. (a) The following amounts are |
|
appropriated to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in |
|
addition to other appropriations to the department under Article V |
|
of this Act for the purpose of establishing a pilot program to use |
|
active, real-time global positioning satellite tracking devices to |
|
monitor a cumulative total of 500 individuals who are on community |
|
supervision or who have been released from the department to |
|
parole: |
|
(1) $2,000,000 for the state fiscal year beginning |
|
September 1, 2007; and |
|
(2) $2,000,000 for the state fiscal year beginning |
|
September 1, 2008. |
|
(b) The pilot program must evaluate the effectiveness of |
|
using active, real-time global positioning satellite devices to |
|
enhance public safety by tracking individuals who are on community |
|
supervision or have been released from the department to parole. |
|
The department is authorized to employ 8 full-time equivalent |
|
employees (FTEs), in addition to those otherwise authorized by this |
|
Act, to operate the pilot program. |
|
(2) Adjust the number of FTEs authorized for the Texas |
|
Department of Criminal Justice accordingly and adjust the Article |
|
totals and Article XI agency totals accordingly. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 176 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 as follows: |
|
(1) Following the Article I appropriations to the Office of |
|
the Attorney General, add the following appropriately numbered |
|
rider: |
|
____. Contingency for House Bill No. 3390: |
|
Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program. Contingent on the passage and |
|
becoming law of House Bill No. 3390 or similar legislation that |
|
establishes a Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program in certain school |
|
districts, the total amount appropriated to the Office of the |
|
Attorney General from the general revenue fund and the portion of |
|
that total amount appropriated that may be used for travel are each |
|
reduced by $130,284 for fiscal year 2008 and by $130,284 for fiscal |
|
year 2009. |
|
(2) Following the Article III appropriations to the Texas |
|
Education Agency, add the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. Contingency Appropriation for House Bill No. 3390: |
|
Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program. Contingent on the passage and |
|
becoming law of House Bill No. 3390 or similar legislation that |
|
establishes a Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program in certain school |
|
districts, in addition to other amounts appropriated to the Texas |
|
Education Agency, the amounts of $130,284 in general revenue for |
|
fiscal year 2008 and $130,284 in general revenue for fiscal year |
|
2009 plus the unexpended balance from fiscal year 2008 are |
|
appropriated to the Texas Education Agency to award grants to |
|
eligible school districts to provide Kindergarten-Plus programs as |
|
provided by that legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 177 |
|
Amend Floor Amendment No. 72 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Villareal by |
|
striking the text of the amendment and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill following the |
|
Article XI provisions for the Texas Education Agency by adding the |
|
following rider: |
|
Contingency Appropriation for House Bill No. 3390: |
|
Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program. Contingent on the passage and |
|
becoming law of House Bill No. 3390 or similar legislation that |
|
establishes a Kindergarten-Plus Pilot Program in certain school |
|
districts, in addition to other amounts appropriated to the Texas |
|
Education Agency, the amounts of $130,284 in general revenue for |
|
fiscal year 2008 and $130,284 in general revenue for fiscal year |
|
2009 plus the unexpended balance from fiscal year 2008 are |
|
appropriated to the Texas Education Agency to award grants to |
|
eligible school districts to provide Kindergarten-Plus programs as |
|
provided by that legislation. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 178 |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1, in Article II of the bill following |
|
appropriations to the Department of State Health Services, by |
|
adding the following appropriately numbered rider: |
|
____. Local Mental Health Authority Diversion Programs. |
|
Out of funds appropriated above in Strategy C. 1. 3, Mental Health |
|
State Hospitals (page II-39), to the Department of State Health |
|
Services that are allocated to a local mental health authority for |
|
state hospital civil placement or state hospital forensic |
|
placements, any unobligated balances at the end of the fiscal years |
|
ending August 31, 2007, and August 31, 2008, are appropriated to the |
|
Department of State Health Services for reallocation to that local |
|
mental health authority for the purpose of funding local programs |
|
designed to reduce inpatient admissions, emergency room visits, and |
|
state hospital admissions of persons with mental illness. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 179 |
|
Amend amendment No. 34 to C.S.H.B. No. 1 by Turner (page 39 |
|
prefiled amendment packet) by striking the text of the amendment |
|
and substituting the following: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 in Article XI of the bill, following the |
|
Article XI provisions for the Department of State Health Services |
|
by adding the following rider: |
|
Local Mental Health Authority Diversion Programs. The |
|
following amounts are appropriated to the Department of State |
|
Health Services for reallocation to a local mental health authority |
|
for the purpose of funding local programs designed to reduce |
|
inpatient admissions, emergency room visits, and state hospital |
|
admissions of persons with mental illness: |
|
(1) the unobligated balances in Strategy C.1.3, Mental |
|
Health State Hospitals (page II-39) at the end of the state fiscal |
|
year ending August 31, 2007, that are allocated to that local mental |
|
health authority for state hospital civil placement or state |
|
hospital forensic placements; and |
|
(2) the unobligated balances in Strategy C.1.3, Mental |
|
Health State Hospitals (page II-39) at the end of the state fiscal |
|
year ending August 31, 2008, that are allocated to that local mental |
|
health authority for state hospital civil placement or state |
|
hospital forensic placements. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 180 |
|
Building and Procurement Commission, Article XI |
|
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Capital Budget Project |
|
Prepared by LBB Staff, 03/26/2007 |
|
Overview |
|
Appropriate $21,700,000 in General Obligation bond authority to the |
|
Texas Building and Procurement Commission for the Texas State |
|
Library and Archives Commission project of renovation and expansion |
|
of the Lorenzo de Zavala Building. The renovations and repair will |
|
replace the roof and elevators, replace the environmental controls |
|
and wiring and complete the abatement of asbestos. The expansion of |
|
archival storage space will accommodate the necessary archival |
|
growth for the next 20 years, according to the agency. |
|
Increase General Revenue appropriation to the Texas Public Finance |
|
Authority for Bond Debt Service by $1,884,394 for the 2008-09 |
|
biennium. The increase would result in an $1,884,394 cost to the |
|
bill. |
|
Required Action |
|
1) On page I-14 of the bill pattern for the Building and |
|
Procurement Commission, increase General Obligation bond |
|
authority for Strategy B.2.1, Building Design and Construction |
|
$21,700,000 in fiscal year 2008 and provide for unexpended |
|
balances in fiscal year 2009. |
|
2) On page I-16 of the bill pattern for the Building and |
|
Procurement Commission, amend the following rider: |
|
3. Capital Budget. None of the funds appropriated above may be |
|
expended for capital budget items except as listed below. The |
|
amounts shown below shall be expended only for the purposes |
|
shown and are not available for expenditure for other purposes. |
|
Amounts appropriated above and identified in this provision as |
|
appropriations either for "Lease payments to the Master Lease |
|
Purchase Program or for items with an "(MLPP)" notation shall |
|
be expended only for the purpose of making lease-purchase |
|
payments to the Texas Public Finance Authority pursuant to the |
|
provisions of Government Code, § 1232.103. |
|
|
|
Out of the Interagency Contracts:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
a. Construction of Buildings and Facilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) Construction of Buildings |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
|
Total, Construction of Buildings and Facilities
|
|
$ 2,000,000
|
|
$ 2,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
Total, Capital Budget
|
|
$ 2,000,000
|
|
$ 2,000,000
|
|
|
b.Repair or Rehabilitation of Buildings and Facilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
b.Repair or Rehabilitation of Buildings and Facilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) Facilities Renovation and Expansion of |
|
$ 21,700,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
|
|
Total, Capital Budget |
|
$ 23,700,000 |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
|
Method of Financing (Capital Budget): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interagency Contracts |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
|
Bond Proceeds - General Obligation Bonds |
|
$ 21,700,000 |
|
UB |
|
|
Total, Method of Financing |
|
$ 23,700,000 |
|
$ 2,000,000 |
|
|
3) On page I-82 of the bill pattern for Bond Debt Service Payments, |
|
increase General Revenue for Strategy A.1.1, Bond Debt Service |
|
by $308,028 in fiscal year 2008 and by $1,576,366 in fiscal |
|
year 2009. |
|
4) On page I-40 of the Public Finance Authority bill pattern, |
|
amend Rider 2, Information Listing of Appropriated Funds for |
|
Strategy A.2.2, Bond Debt Service to increase General Revenue |
|
amounts by $308,028 in fiscal year 2008 and $1,576,366 in |
|
fiscal year 2009. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 181 |
|
Amend Amendment No. __ by Otto to C.S.H.B. No. 1 (page 302, |
|
pre-filed amendment packet) as follows: |
|
(1) In Item 1, strike "On page I-14 of the bill pattern for |
|
the Building and Procurement Commission," and substitute "Amend |
|
C.S.H.B. No 1 by adding the following rider following the Article XI |
|
provisions for the Building and Procurement Commission: |
|
General Obligation Bond Authority. In addition to amounts |
|
appropriated to the Building and Procurement Commission in Article |
|
I of the bill,". |
|
(2) Strike Item 2 and substitute as follows: |
|
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no funds |
|
appropriated to the Building and Procurement Commission may be |
|
expended for capital budget items except as provided by this rider. |
|
The following amounts may be expended only for the purposes shown |
|
and are not available for expenditure for other purposes. Amounts |
|
appropriated in this Act and identified in this provision as |
|
appropriations either for "Lease payments to the Master Lease |
|
Purchase Program or for items with an "(MLPP)" notation may be |
|
expended only for the purpose of making lease-purchase payments to |
|
the Texas Public Finance Authority pursuant to the provisions of |
|
Section 1232.103, Government Code. $2 million dollars in fiscal |
|
year 2008 and $2 million dollars in fiscal year 2009 may be expended |
|
for construction of buildings. In fiscal year 2008, $21,700,000 |
|
may be expended for facilities renovation and expansion of the |
|
Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the unexpended |
|
balances are appropriated for the same purpose for fiscal year |
|
2009. Adjust method of financing and article totals accordingly. |
|
(3) In Item 3, strike "On page I-82 of the bill pattern for |
|
the Bond Debt Service Payments," and substitute "Amend C.S.H.B. No |
|
1 by adding the following new rider in Article XI: |
|
Bond Debt Service Payments. In addition to amounts |
|
appropriated for bond debt service payments in Article I" |
|
(4) Strike item 4 and substitute as follows: |
|
Amend C.S.H.B. No 1 by adding the following rider to Article |
|
XI: |
|
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in addition |
|
to amounts appropriated to the Public Finance Authority $308,028 is |
|
appropriated in fiscal year 2008 for the purpose of bond debt |
|
service and $1,576,366 is appropriated in fiscal year 2009 for the |
|
purpose of bond debt service. |
|
ENGROSSED RIDER NO. 182 |
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Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1 on Third Reading, as follows: |
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(1) In Article V of the bill, in the appropriations to the |
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Texas Youth Commission (Page V-60), add the following appropriately |
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numbered rider following the appropriations to the Texas Youth |
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Commission: |
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_____. Sheffield Boot Camp. It is the intent of the |
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Legislature that the Sheffield Boot Camp be renamed in honor |
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William David "Dub" Slaughter, Jr., who was one of the principal |
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architects of the idea to build a state boot camp in Sheffield and |
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who was recently killed in an automobile accident near the boot |
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camp. |
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I certify that attached are the committee substitute for and |
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181 amendments to H.B. No. 1 that were adopted by the Texas House of |
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Representatives during second reading consideration on March 29, |
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2007. |
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I further certify that, on March 30, 2007, the House |
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suspended House Rule 2, Section 1(a)(9) to permit H.B. No. 1 to be |
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sent to the Senate in the form of engrossed riders in lieu of a full |
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engrossment. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |