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Amend CSHB 1 as follows:
(1)  On page VI-24 after the bill pattern for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, add the following appropriately numbered rider:
____.  Contingency for HB 3998. Contingent on enactment of HB 3998, or similar legislation creating a system of comprehensive surface water and groundwater models, including the integration of surface water and groundwater, by the Eighty-Sixth Legislature, Regular Session, in Article VI of the bill, in the appropriations for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (page VI-15), reduce the appropriations for Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, by $20,000,000 out of General Revenue-Dedicated Clean Air Account No. 151 in fiscal year 2020.
(2)  In the bill pattern for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, amend Rider 23, Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP), (page VI-22) as follows:
23.  Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP). Amounts appropriated above out of the Clean Air Account No. 151 in Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, include [$48,297,728] $28,297,728 in fiscal year 2020 and $48,297,728 in fiscal year 2021 [each fiscal year] in estimated fee revenues from vehicle inspection and maintenance fees generated pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 382.202 and 382.302, to fund the Low-Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program (LIRAP). Out of these amounts, not more than $253,893 in each fiscal year shall be used by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for costs associated with administering the LIRAP as authorized in Health and Safety Code, Section 382.202, and all remaining funds shall be used as LIRAP grants to local governments.
Amounts appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, also include $4,829,673 in each fiscal year of the 2020-21 biennium out of the Clean Air Account No. 151 to be used only for purposes authorized in Chapter 382 of the Health and Safety Code for county-implemented local initiatives projects to reduce air emissions.
Amounts appropriated above for LIRAP grants and local initiatives projects also include an estimated $2,448,268 in estimated fee revenue generated from Travis County and $1,113,280 each fiscal year in estimated fee revenue generated from Williamson County for the 2020-21 biennium. The TCEQ shall allocate, at a minimum, the estimated revenue amounts collected in each of the counties during the 2020-21 biennium to provide LIRAP grants and local initiatives projects in those counties.
In addition to the amounts appropriated above, any additional revenues from vehicle inspection and maintenance fees generated from additional counties participating in the LIRAP beginning on or after September 1, 2019, are appropriated to the TCEQ for the biennium. Such funds shall be used to provide grants to local governments and to cover administrative costs of the TCEQ in administering the LIRAP.
(3)  On page III-76 after the bill pattern for The University of Texas at Austin, add the following appropriately numbered rider:
____.  Contingency for HB 3998. Contingent on enactment of HB 3998, or similar legislation creating a system of comprehensive surface water and groundwater models, including the integration of surface water and groundwater, by the Eighty-Sixth Legislature, Regular Session, in Article VI of the bill, in the appropriations for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (page VI-15), reduce the appropriations for Strategy A.1.1, Air Quality Assessment and Planning, by $20,000,000 out of General Revenue-Dedicated Clean Air Account No. 151 in fiscal year 2020.
(5)  On page IX-94, add the following rider to Section 18 of Article IX:
____.  Contingency for HJR 10. Contingent on enactment of HJR 10, or similar legislation proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the Texas legacy fund and the Texas legacy distribution fund, by the Eighty-Sixth Legislature, Regular Session, and contingent on non-enactment of HB 3998, or similar legislation creating a system of comprehensive surface water and groundwater models, including the integration of surface water and groundwater, by the Eighty-Sixth Legislature, Regular Session, the Comptroller of Public Accounts is appropriated $20,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 in general revenue for deposit to the Texas legacy fund to implement the provisions of the legislation.