Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article VI of the bill, following the appropriations to the Water Development Board (page VI-59), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Allocation for Weslaco Mid-Valley Airport Irrigation Canal Project. Out of the amounts appropriated above from the General Revenue Fund to the Water Development Board for Strategies A.2.2, Water Resources Planning, and B.1.1, State & Federal Financial Assistance Program, the board may allocate an aggregate amount of $6,710,000 for each fiscal year of the 2022-2023 biennium to provide grant funding for the Weslaco Mid-Valley Airport Irrigation Canal Project.  (a)  In addition to other amounts appropriated by this Act and notwithstanding Sections 13.01 and 13.02 of Part 13, Article IX, of this Act, a total amount of $13,420,000 of any money made available under the following laws and subject to appropriation from the state treasury is reappropriated to the Water Development Board to the extent consistent with conditions placed on the expenditure of that money by the federal government:

(1)  Section 5001, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (42 U.S.C. Section 801);

(2)  Section 313, Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. M, Pub. L. No. 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182 (2020), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401); or

(3)  Section 2001, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4 (2021), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401).

(b)  Out of money reappropriated by Subsection (a) of this rider, the Water Development Board may use the amount of $6,710,000 for each fiscal year of the 2022-2023 biennium to provide grant funding for the Weslaco Mid-Valley Airport Irrigation Canal Project.