BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 1831

By: Bernal

Appropriations

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties contend that maintaining the Alamo complex account in the general revenue fund has resulted in certain delays and complications in the operations of the Alamo complex. H.B. 1831 seeks to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Alamo complex operations by moving the account outside the state treasury to be administered by the General Land Office.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

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. 1831 amends the Natural Resources Code to replace the provision establishing the Alamo complex account as a separate account in the general revenue fund with a provision creating the Alamo complex account as an account outside the state treasury and requiring the General Land Office (GLO) to administer the account. The bill appropriates the unencumbered balance of the Alamo complex account in the general revenue fund as that account exists immediately before the bill's effective date to the comptroller of public accounts for the period beginning on the bill's effective date and ending August 31, 2018, for the purpose of depositing the money to the credit of the Alamo complex account created outside the state treasury.

H.B. 1831 amends the Government Code to make a conforming change.

H.B. 1831 repeals Section 31.454(d), Natural Resources Code, which requires appropriations to the GLO for the preservation, operation, or maintenance of the Alamo complex to be deposited to the credit of the Alamo complex account.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2017.