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Amend CSSB 23 (house committee printing) as follows:
In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike Subsection (c) on page 4, lines 23-27 and reletter subsequent subsections accordingly.
SECTION 1.  SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAM FUND; FEE IMPOSED ON CERTAIN SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES. (a) Section 102.054, Business & Commerce Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102.054. ALLOCATION OF [CERTAIN] REVENUE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS. The comptroller shall deposit the amount [first $25 million] received from the fee imposed under this subchapter [in a state fiscal biennium] to the credit of the sexual assault program fund.
(b)  The comptroller of public accounts shall collect the fee imposed under Section 102.052, Business & Commerce Code, until a court, in a final judgement upheld on appeal or no longer subject to appeal, finds Section 102.052, Business & Commerce Code, or its predecessor statute, to be unconstitutional.
(c)  Section 102.055, Business & Commerce Code, is repealed.
(d)  This section prevails over any other Act of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, regardless of the relative dates of enactment, that purports to amend or repeal Subchapter B, Chapter 102, Business & Commerce Code, or any provision of Chapter 1206 (HB 1751), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007.