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Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing), in Article I of the bill, following the bill pattern appropriations to the Office of the Governor (page I-50), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:
____.  Contingent Rider: Funding for Border Security Activities. Contingent on the passage and becoming law of HB 4306 or similar legislation of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, authorizing the creation of a fund to pay for the planning, designing, construction, or maintenance of physical barriers, technology, or related infrastructure along this state's international border:
(1)  the amount of general revenue appropriated by this Act for border security, as described by Section 17.07, Article IX, of this Act, is reduced to $0;
(2)  an amount of general revenue equal to the total amount by which appropriations are reduced as provided by Subdivision (1) of this provision is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the fund created and governed by HB 4306 or similar legislation of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2019; and
(3)  an amount equal to the amount appropriated by this provision to the fund created and governed by HB 4306 or similar legislation of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2019, is appropriated from that fund to the office of the governor for the purpose of enabling that legislation.