Bill Text: TX HR2471 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.J.R. No. 125.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [HR2471 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2471-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2471 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of | ||
Texas, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to | ||
resolve the differences on House Joint Resolution 125 (creating the | ||
broadband infrastructure fund to expand high-speed broadband | ||
access and assist in the financing of connectivity projects) to | ||
consider and take action on the following matter: | ||
House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the | ||
committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house | ||
or senate version of the joint resolution in proposed SECTION 1 of | ||
the joint resolution, by adding Section 49-d-16(f), Article III, | ||
Texas Constitution, to read as follows: | ||
(f) The comptroller may transfer money from the fund to | ||
another fund as provided by general law. The state agency that | ||
administers the fund to which the money is transferred as | ||
authorized by this subsection may use the money without further | ||
appropriation only for the expansion of access to and adoption of | ||
broadband and telecommunications services as provided by general | ||
law. | ||
Explanation: The added text would enable the comptroller of | ||
public accounts to transfer money from the broadband infrastructure | ||
fund to another fund, authorizing the state agency administering | ||
the fund to which the money is transferred to use it only for the | ||
expansion of access to and adoption of broadband and | ||
telecommunications services. | ||
Ashby | ||
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Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2471 was adopted by the House on May | ||
28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 8, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||