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Amend Floor Amendment No. 266 by Simmons to Part 6, Article IX, CSSB 1, as follows:
(1)  On page 1, strike lines 3 and 4 and substitute:
Sec. 6.____. Contingent Reduction of Total Appropriations by Two Percent and Provision of Initial Corpus of Money for State Water Implementation Fund for Texas. (a) Contingent on HB 4 or similar legislation of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, to create and govern the state water implementation fund for Texas being enacted and becoming law, and contingent on the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, failing to appropriate money to provide an initial corpus of money for the state water implementation fund for Texas to be available in that fund for use during the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act providing for appropriations of undedicated general revenue, each
(2)  Following page 1, line 9, add the following:
(b)  An amount of general revenue equal to the amount by which appropriations are reduced as provided by Subsection (a) of this provision is transferred to the state water implementation fund for Texas created and governed by HB 4 or similar legislation of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, to form the initial corpus of that fund. The comptroller shall transfer the undedicated general revenue to that fund in a manner such that not less than 40 percent of the available undedicated general revenue is transferred to that fund before September 1, 2014, and the remainder of the available undedicated general revenue is transferred to that fund before August 31, 2015. Money transferred to that fund under this subsection is appropriated to the Texas Water Development Board for the purposes of that fund.