Amend SB 1731 (house committee report printing) on third reading as follows:

(1) On page 2, strike lines 23 and 24 and substitute the following:

(a) The Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Advisory Board is abolished on the date that the programs described by Section 386.252(a), Health and Safety Code, and the funding for those programs are continued in effect.

(2) On page 2, line 25; page 3, line 17; page 4, lines 3 and 26; page 5, line 12; and page 6, line 1, insert the following language immediately preceding the first word of Subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g):

"Effective on the date that the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Advisory Board is abolished under Subsection (a),"

(3) On page 6, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following new subsections:

(h) In effectuating the abolition of the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Advisory board, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall complete any unfinished work of the abolished advisory board, including conducting the annual review of programs required under Section 386.057(a), Health and Safety Code; In conducting that review of unfinished work, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall consider the feasibility and benefits of implementing a governmental alternative fuel fleet grant program. If the commission determines that implementation of such a program is feasible and would contribute to emissions reductions, the commission may adopt rules governing the program and the eligibility for entities to receive grants from the fund created under Section 386.251, Health and Safety Code.

(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the programs described by Section 386.252(a), Health and Safety Code, and the funding for those programs are continued until the last day of the state fiscal biennium during which the United States Environmental Protection Agency publishes in the Federal Register certification that, with respect to each national ambient air quality standard for ozone under 40 C.F.R. Section 81.344, the agency has, for each designated area under that section, designated the area as attainment or unclassifiable or approved a redesignation substitute making a finding of attainment for the area.