This website will be unavailable from Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.


Amend CSHB 11 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1)  On page 1, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following:
SECTION 2.  (a)  If the state water implementation fund for Texas is created by legislation enacted by the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, the amount of $2 billion is appropriated for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013, from the general revenue fund to the comptroller for the purpose of depositing that amount to the credit of the state water implementation fund for Texas as money held and invested by the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company and available for use by the Texas Water Development Board for the purposes of the state water implementation fund for Texas.
(b)  Each item of appropriation for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013, made from undedicated money in the general revenue fund by an Act of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, for which the specific amount of the appropriation may be ascertained as of September 1, 2013, is hereby reduced proportionally in a total amount equal to the amount of the appropriation made by Subsection (a) of this section. Not later than October 1, 2013, the legislative budget board shall determine and certify to the comptroller and to the entity to which the appropriation is made the amount of each reduction in an item of appropriation made by this subsection.
(2)  Strike SECTION 2 of the bill and substitute the following appropriately numbered SECTION:
SECTION ____.  (a)  If this Act receives a vote of at least two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution:
(1)  Section 1 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2013; and
(2)  Section 2 of this Act does not take effect.
(b)  If this Act does not receive the vote prescribed by Subsection (a) of this section:
(1)  Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 2013; and
(2)  Section 1 of this Act does not take effect.