Bill Amendment: TX SB8 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session

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Bill Title: Relating to making supplemental appropriations and giving direction regarding appropriations.

Status: 2021-11-08 - Effective immediately [SB8 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB8-House_Amendment_H_2_12-Goodwin.html

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Amend CSSB 8 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 5(a) of the bill, making an appropriation to the Department of Information Resources (page 3, line 9), strike "$200,000,000" and substitute "$180,000,000".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill and cross-references to those SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR: COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. The amount of $20,000,000 is appropriated to the Office of the Governor from money received by this state from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 to be used during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of providing grant funding on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations and community-based partnerships that serve communities that are disproportionately impacted by violence to develop, enhance, and expand effective violence reduction initiatives, including hospital-based violence intervention, street outreach, and group violence intervention strategies, consistent with Strategy B.1.1, Criminal Justice, as listed in Chapter 1053 (SB 1), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021 (the General Appropriations Act).