Amend CSHJR 5 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 1, strike lines 9 through 13 and substitute the following:
Sec. 68. The Texas mental and behavioral health research fund is established in the state treasury and consists of money transferred or deposited to the fund as provided by Section 7-c, Article VIII, of this constitution, appropriations made to the fund by the legislature, and all interest, dividends, and other income of the fund. Money from the fund may be used as provided by general law for the purpose of funding programs:
(2) Strike page 2, line 11, through page 3, line 8.
(3) On page 3, strike lines 13 and 14 and substitute the following:
dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to the Texas mental and behavioral health research fund established to fund research, treatment, and
(4) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the resolution, and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the resolution accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 7-c, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Subsections (b-1) and (d-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) Subject to Subsection (d-1) of this section, in each state fiscal year, the comptroller of public accounts shall deposit to the credit of the Texas mental and behavioral health research fund $100 million of the net revenue derived from the imposition of the state sales and use tax on the sale, storage, use, or other consumption in this state of taxable items under Chapter 151, Tax Code, or its successor, that exceeds the amount of $30.5 billion of that revenue coming into the treasury in that state fiscal year.
(d-1) The legislature by adoption of a resolution approved by a record vote of two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature may direct the comptroller of public accounts to reduce the amount of money deposited to the credit of the Texas mental and behavioral health research fund under Subsection (b-1) of this section. The comptroller may be directed to make that reduction only:
(1) in the state fiscal year in which the resolution is adopted, or in either of the following two state fiscal years; and
(2) by an amount or percentage that does not result in a reduction of more than 50 percent of the amount that would otherwise be deposited to the fund in the affected state fiscal year under Subsection (b-1) of this section.