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Amend CSHB 1 as follows:
(1)  On page VII-15 in the bill pattern for the Department of Motor Vehicles, amend the following rider:
10.  Contingency for Driver License Program Transfer. (a) In addition to amounts appropriated above, the Department of Motor Vehicles is appropriated $135,560,337 from the General Revenue Fund and $4,610,318 from Other Funds in fiscal year 2021, and the "Number of Full-Time-Equivalents (FTE)" figure indicated above is increased by 2,236.8 FTEs in fiscal year 2021 for the purposes of administering the state driver license program.
(b)  In addition to amounts appropriated above, the Department of Motor Vehicles is appropriated $200,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund in fiscal year 2020 and an additional 962.0 FTEs in each fiscal year of the 2020-21 biennium for the purposes of increasing driver license staff and improving service delivery at current driver license offices. Out of the amount appropriated in this subsection, $7,034,375 shall be allocated for the construction of a new driver license office in the City of Denton. The Department of Motor Vehicles is authorized to transfer to the Department of Public Safety any amounts necessary from appropriations made by this subsection to implement related legislation and legislative direction. Any unexpended balances of appropriations made by this subsection remaining as of August 31, 2020, are appropriated to the Department of Motor Vehicles in the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2020, for the same purposes.
(c)  In the event the legislation relating the transfer of the driver license program to the Department of Motor Vehicles is not enacted by the Eighty-Sixth Legislature, Regular Session, Subsections (a) and (b) of this rider have no effect.