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Amend CSSB 1 (introduced version) in Article XI of the bill, following the appropriations to the department of Public Safety (page V-46), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:
____.  Emergency Radio Infrastructure. In addition to the amounts appropriated above in Strategy B.2.1, Public Safety Communications, of the fees allocated under Section 133.102(e)(11), Local Government Code, and deposited in the emergency radio infrastructure account 5153, $35.7 million is appropriated to the Department of Public Safety for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2014, for the purposes of planning, developing, providing, enhancing, and maintaining an interoperable statewide emergency radio infrastructure and the additional amount of $10 million is appropriated to the Department of Public Safety for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015, for the same purposes. Any unexpended balances at the close of the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2014, are appropriated for the same purposes for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015. The money appropriated under this provision does not apply to the department for purposes of the capital budget rider limitations specified in Section 14.03, Limitation on Expenditures - Capital Budget, of the General Provisions of this Act, and amounts expended from the fund may not count toward the limitations of other capital budget provisions in this Act.