| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in |
|
|
appropriations. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: GROUP HEALTH |
|
|
INSURANCE. In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the |
|
|
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2007, the amount of |
|
|
$3,678,942 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to |
|
|
Austin Community College for the two-year period beginning on the |
|
|
effective date of this Act for the purpose of correcting the |
|
|
institution's underreporting of its state-funded group health |
|
|
insurance enrollment for fiscal years 2006 and 2007. |
|
|
SECTION 2. SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE. |
|
|
In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal |
|
|
biennium ending August 31, 2007, the amount of $1,424,764 is |
|
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to South Plains |
|
|
College for the two-year period beginning on the effective date of |
|
|
this Act for the purpose of correcting the institution's |
|
|
underreporting of its state-funded group health insurance |
|
|
enrollment for fiscal years 2006 and 2007. |
|
|
SECTION 3. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: |
|
|
OPERATIONS. In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the |
|
|
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2007, the amount of |
|
|
$47,000,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the |
|
|
Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the two-year period |
|
|
beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of |
|
|
providing for salaries and wages, hazardous duty and longevity pay, |
|
|
overtime pay, contractual rate adjustments, utilities, and fuel. |
|
|
SECTION 4. TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD: OPERATIONS. In addition to |
|
|
amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal biennium |
|
|
ending August 31, 2007, the amount of $1,007,827 is appropriated |
|
|
out of the general revenue fund to the Texas Medical Board for the |
|
|
two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act for the |
|
|
purpose of: |
|
|
(1) repaying the Governor's Emergency and Deficiency |
|
|
Grant awarded in fiscal year 2006; and |
|
|
(2) providing for agency operating expenses for |
|
|
licensing and enforcement. |
|
|
SECTION 5. TEXAS BUILDING AND PROCUREMENT COMMISSION: |
|
|
MAINTENANCE. In addition to amounts previously appropriated for |
|
|
the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2007, the amount of |
|
|
$64,013,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the |
|
|
Texas Building and Procurement Commission for the two-year period |
|
|
beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of |
|
|
providing for various life safety and deferred maintenance |
|
|
projects. |
|
|
SECTION 6. TEXAS BUILDING AND PROCUREMENT COMMISSION: |
|
|
ABATEMENT OF ASBESTOS AND BUILD-OUT OF STEPHEN F. AUSTIN BUILDING. |
|
|
In addition to amounts previously appropriated for the state fiscal |
|
|
biennium ending August 31, 2007, the amount of $12,014,700 is |
|
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Texas Building |
|
|
and Procurement Commission for the two-year period beginning on the |
|
|
effective date of this Act for the purpose of the abatement of |
|
|
asbestos and the build-out of the Stephen F. Austin Building. |
|
|
SECTION 7. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: MEDICARE |
|
|
PART D GIVEBACK. (a) An amount not to exceed $111,100,000 is |
|
|
appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Health and Human |
|
|
Services Commission for the state fiscal year ending August 31, |
|
|
2007, for the purpose of repaying the federal government the |
|
|
amounts determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
|
|
to be due in accordance with the phased-down state contribution for |
|
|
full dual-eligible persons as required by the Medicare Prescription |
|
|
Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Pub. L. No. |
|
|
108-173, 117 Stat. 2066. |
|
|
(b) If any money appropriated by this section and paid to |
|
|
the federal government is subsequently returned by the federal |
|
|
government to the Health and Human Services Commission or to |
|
|
another state agency or office as a result of litigation, |
|
|
reimbursement, or other federal assistance: |
|
|
(1) the state agency or office receiving the money |
|
|
shall report the return of the money to the Legislative Budget Board |
|
|
and inform the board of the circumstances of its return; and |
|
|
(2) the money may not be spent without the prior |
|
|
approval of the Legislative Budget Board. |
|
|
SECTION 8. REDUCTION IN VETOED FUNDS APPROPRIATION. The |
|
|
appropriations made from general revenue by Section 13.18, Article |
|
|
IX, Chapter 1369, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, |
|
|
2005 (the General Appropriations Act), are reduced by an amount |
|
|
equal to the cumulative amount of appropriations made by this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect |
|
|
immediately. |