BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 10

By: Pitts

Appropriations

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Each legislative session, state agencies project the costs of fulfilling their functions and providing important services for the following two-year budget period. This information, combined with the biennial estimate of revenues submitted to the governor and the legislature before the convening of each regular session, are key components in the construction of the General Appropriations Act.

H.B. 10 addresses making supplemental appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding certain appropriations. The bill makes adjustments to appropriations to various agencies over various time periods to address revised revenue estimates and supplemental needs.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 10 appropriates, in addition to amounts previously appropriated for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium, the amounts of $3,163,515,906 out of the general revenue fund and $265,316,377 out of general revenue account number 5040, Tobacco Settlement, for the 2013 state fiscal year to the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) under Goal B, Medicaid, as listed in Chapter 1355 (H.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011 (the General Appropriations Act), for the purpose of providing acute care services under the Medicaid program. The bill authorizes HHSC to transfer for the 2013 state fiscal year any amount so appropriated among certain strategies specified in the General Appropriations Act in the appropriations to HHSC. The bill authorizes HHSC to transfer for the 2013 state fiscal year any amount appropriated to HHSC out of the general revenue fund by the bill's provisions to the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) and among certain strategies specified in the General Appropriations Act in the appropriations to DADS. The bill prohibits an amount transferred to a strategy specified by the bill from exceeding the sum of the amounts transferred from that item of appropriation for cash flow purposes made under certain specified provisions in the General Appropriations Act.

H.B. 10 appropriates, in addition to amounts previously appropriated for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium, the amount of $74,683,623 for the 2013 state fiscal year out of general revenue account number 5040, Tobacco Settlement, to HHSC under Goal C, CHIP Services, as listed in the General Appropriations Act, for the purpose of providing services under the CHIP program.

H.B. 10 appropriates, in addition to amounts previously appropriated for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium, the amount of $1,019,065,242 out of the general revenue fund for the 2013 state fiscal year to DADS under Strategy A.6.1, Nursing Facility Payments, as listed in the General Appropriations Act, for the purpose of providing long-term care services under the Medicaid program. The bill authorizes DADS for the 2013 state fiscal year to allocate this additional appropriation amount among certain strategies specified in the General Appropriations Act in the appropriations to DADS. The bill prohibits any amount allocated to Strategy A.8.1, State Supported Living Centers, from exceeding the sum of the amounts transferred from that item of appropriation for cash flow purposes made under certain specified provisions in the General Appropriations Act.

H.B. 10 appropriates, in addition to amounts previously appropriated for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium, the amounts of $317,000,000 out of general revenue account number 0193, Foundation School, and $313,000,000 out of Fund 0666, Appropriated Receipts (revenue from school districts subject to recapture), for the 2013 state fiscal year to the Texas Education Agency under Strategy A.1.1, FSP - Equalized Operations, as listed in the General Appropriations Act, for the purpose of providing for the Foundation School Program (FSP). The bill increases the sum certain appropriation to the FSP for the 2013 state fiscal year by the amount of $630,000,000 and reduces the amounts of the unencumbered appropriations made from the general revenue fund for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium to the Texas Public Finance Authority by the General Appropriations Act, under Strategy A.2.2, Bond Debt Service Payments, by $3,000,000.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage.