By: Crownover Senate Sponsor-Averitt H.B. No. 3929

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2007; May 10, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; May 21, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the funding of the Alternative Fuels Research and Education Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 113.246(b), Natural Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The rebate program provided in Section 113.2435 shall be funded by 50 percent of the total delivery fees collected under Section 113.244. Administrative costs for the Alternative Fuels Research and Education Division program may not exceed 25 percent of the total delivery fees collected. The remainder of the total delivery fees collected may be expended at the discretion of the commission. Notwithstanding the limitation on consumer rebate program spending imposed by Section 113.2435(c)(5), on August 31, 2008, the commission shall carry forward unexpended amounts that were budgeted for consumer rebate programs during the state fiscal year ending on that date and shall include those amounts in the commission's operating budget for consumer rebate programs for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2008, conditioned on the commission reserving no more than 50 percent of those amounts, to the degree necessary for operational cash flow.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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