Bill Text: TX HB118 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 118 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the appropriation of certain tax proceeds for the repair, restoration, and permanent dry berthing of the Battleship "Texas."

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Appropriations [HB118 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB118-Introduced.html

	85S10223 JG-D

	By: Cain	H.B. No. 118



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the appropriation of certain tax proceeds for the
	repair, restoration, and permanent dry berthing of the Battleship
	"Texas."
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. (a) Out of the proceeds from the collection of
	the taxes imposed by Chapter 151, Tax Code, on the sale, storage, or
	use of sporting goods, as defined by Section 151.801, Tax Code,
	$15,000,000 is transferred to the Texas parks and wildlife
	conservation and capital account and is appropriated from that
	account to the Parks and Wildlife Department for the state fiscal
	year ending August 31, 2018, and $20,000,000 is transferred to the
	Texas parks and wildlife conservation and capital account and is
	appropriated from that account to the Parks and Wildlife Department
	for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2019. Money
	appropriated to the Parks and Wildlife Department under this
	section shall be used to repair, restore, and present to the public
	in a permanent dry berth the Battleship "Texas."
	(b) This Act expires September 1, 2019.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.