Amend HB 15 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In the SECTION of the bill providing the effective date of the bill, strike "This Act takes effect September 1, 2015." and substitute "Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017."

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill as appropriate:

SECTION ____.  (a) The comptroller of public accounts shall conduct a study on the implementation of this Act. The study must consider which procedures would best achieve the purposes of this Act, the most appropriate entities to administer those procedures, and any recommended legislation necessary to best achieve the purposes of this Act.

(b)  The comptroller of public accounts, based on the study conducted under Subsection (a) of this section, shall issue a report on its findings to the legislature not later than October 1, 2016.

(c)  This section takes effect September 1, 2015.