Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing), Article I, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts by adding the following new section to be numbered appropriately:

Sec. ____. To improve transparency and ensure that essential state revenue information is available to each member of the legislature in a timely manner, the Comptroller shall prepare and transmit to each member of the legislature for each fiscal year of the 2012-2013 biennium a monthly report identifying the amount of collections of general revenue-related funds by source. The monthly report shall also include the cumulative amount of general revenue-related funds by source to date and the total amount estimated to be available for the fiscal year in the Comptroller's January 2011 Biennial Revenue Estimate for 2012-2013. If, at any time, the Comptroller shall change or update an estimate of general revenue-related funds as itemized in the January 2011 Biennial Revenue Estimate, the monthly report must include the amount and source of the adjustment.