Amend HB 3849 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  CANCER PREVENTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. (a) The comptroller of public accounts shall establish the cancer prevention and research interest and sinking fund in accordance with Section 102.270, Health and Safety Code, as if the cancer prevention and research interest and sinking fund had not been abolished by operation of Section 2, Chapter 839 (HB 6), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013. The cancer prevention and research interest and sinking fund is re-created by this Act. The dedication of revenue to the fund made by Section 102.270(b), Health and Safety Code, for the purposes specified by Section 102.270(c), Health and Safety Code, that was abolished by operation of Section 2, Chapter 839 (HB 6), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is rededicated by this Act for the same purposes.

(b)  Section 2 of this Act does not apply to the re-creation of the cancer prevention and research interest and sinking fund and rededication of revenue to that fund made by Subsection (a) of this section.