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Amend HB 2206 (house engrossment) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter F, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 2165.2565 to read as follows:
Sec. 2165.2565. STATE CEMETERY PRESERVATION TRUST FUND. (a) The State Cemetery preservation trust fund is created as a trust fund outside the state treasury to be held with the comptroller in trust. The State Preservation Board shall administer the fund as trustee on behalf of the people of this state. The fund consists of money:
(1) transferred or appropriated to the fund; and
(2) received by the State Cemetery Committee under Section 2165.256(s) and deposited to the fund by the State Preservation Board for the committee.
(b) The interest received from investment of money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
(c) Money in the fund may be used only to:
(1) maintain, renovate, make major repairs or capital improvements to, or preserve the State Cemetery, as determined by the State Preservation Board; or
(2) acquire land in close proximity to the State Cemetery for expansion of the cemetery.
SECTION ____. Notwithstanding Section 222.002, Transportation Code, or any other law, as soon as practicable after the sale of property that is the subject of Section 2165.256(b-1), Government Code, as that section existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, the comptroller of public accounts shall transfer from the state highway fund to the State Cemetery preservation trust fund, as created by this Act, an amount of money equal to the portion of the proceeds attributable to the sale of that property that is required to be deposited by the Texas Department of Transportation in a subaccount in the state highway fund for use by the State Preservation Board for the State Cemetery Committee under the terms of a memorandum of understanding entered into between the department and the State Cemetery Committee.
SECTION ____. To the extent of any conflict, this Act controls over another Act of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, that is enacted and becomes law, relating to the creation of the State Cemetery preservation trust fund.