Bill Text: TX HB160 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to making supplemental appropriations for education initiatives, institutions, and related agencies and giving direction regarding appropriations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-15 - Received from the House [HB160 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB160-Introduced.html
| By: Wilson | H.B. No. 160 | |
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| relating to making supplemental appropriations for education | ||
| initiatives, institutions, and related agencies and giving | ||
| direction regarding appropriations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM: TRS-CARE AND | ||
| TRS-ACTIVECARE. (a) The amount of $286,337,761 is appropriated to | ||
| the Teacher Retirement System 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 for the purpose of providing funding for | ||
| coronavirus-related claims in TRS-Care and TRS-ActiveCare incurred | ||
| before September 1, 2021, during the two-year period beginning on | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) It is the intent of the legislature that premiums for | ||
| TRS-Care and TRS-ActiveCare insurance policies not increase as a | ||
| result of coronavirus-related claims incurred before September 1, | ||
| 2021. | ||
| SECTION 2. HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: TEXAS CHILD | ||
| MENTAL HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM. (a) The amount of $113,082,887 is | ||
| appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Board 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 for the purpose of supporting | ||
| the operations and expansion of the Texas Child Mental Health Care | ||
| Consortium to expand mental health initiatives for children during | ||
| the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act. At | ||
| the direction of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium, the | ||
| Higher Education Coordinating Board shall transfer appropriations | ||
| through interagency contracts with health-related institutions of | ||
| higher education for the following purposes: | ||
| (1) $20,578,442 for enhancements and expansion of the | ||
| Child Psychiatry Access Network; | ||
| (2) $56,218,976 for enhancements and expansion of the | ||
| Texas Child Access Through Telemedicine program; | ||
| (3) $32,991,791 for expansion of the child and | ||
| adolescent mental health workforce; and | ||
| (4) $3,293,676 for administrative expenses. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2021, out of money | ||
| appropriated by Subsection (a) of this section, the Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board shall transfer $3,293,676 to an | ||
| institution of higher education designated by the Texas Child | ||
| Mental Health Care Consortium for oversight and evaluation of the | ||
| outlined initiatives by means of interagency agreements or any | ||
| other necessary contracts. | ||
| (c) The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium may | ||
| transfer up to 10 percent of money appropriated for the purposes | ||
| described by Subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section to any | ||
| of the other purposes described by those provisions. The Texas | ||
| Child Mental Health Care Consortium may transfer more than 10 | ||
| percent of funds for those purposes only with the prior approval for | ||
| the transfer and expenditure from the Legislative Budget Board. A | ||
| request for approval of the transfer and expenditure by the | ||
| consortium is considered approved unless the Legislative Budget | ||
| Board issues a written disapproval within 10 business days of the | ||
| receipt and review of the request by the Legislative Budget Board. | ||
| SECTION 3. TEXAS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: STATE | ||
| OPERATIONS CENTER. (a) The amount of $300,000,000 is appropriated | ||
| to the Texas Division of Emergency Management 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 for the purpose of the acquisition | ||
| of land for, and construction of, a state operations center during | ||
| the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) The capital budget authority of the Texas Division of | ||
| Emergency Management is increased by $300,000,000 for the | ||
| appropriation made under Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
| SECTION 4. HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: UNIVERSITY | ||
| CONSTRUCTION. Contingent on legislation by the 87th Legislature, | ||
| 3rd Called Session, 2021, relating to the issuance of tuition | ||
| revenue bonds, becoming law, the amount of $325,000,000 is | ||
| appropriated to the Higher Education Coordinating Board 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 for the purpose of university | ||
| construction during the two-year period beginning on the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY FUND. The amount | ||
| of $1,000,000,000 is appropriated to the National Research | ||
| University Fund from the 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 to increase the corpus of the fund. It is the | ||
| intent of the Legislature that the methodology used to determine | ||
| the total distribution from the fund be reset to reflect this | ||
| additional appropriation. | ||
| SECTION 6. LEGISLATIVE INTENT REGARDING APPROPRIATIONS. | ||
| (a) It is the intent of the legislature that the appropriations made | ||
| by this Act are one-time appropriations made for the purpose of | ||
| addressing the needs of this state for the two-year period | ||
| beginning on the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) It is the intent of the legislature that the | ||
| appropriations made by this Act be used only for purposes | ||
| authorized by state and federal law, including guidance issued by | ||
| the United States Department of the Treasury as part of the interim | ||
| final rules published in 86 Fed. Reg. 26786 (May 17, 2021). | ||
| (c) It is the intent of the legislature that the | ||
| appropriations made by this Act be used before all other methods of | ||
| finance if more than one method of finance has been appropriated by | ||
| this and a prior act of the legislature for use during a state | ||
| fiscal year. | ||
| (d) It is the intent of the legislature that if the purpose | ||
| of an appropriation, for any reason, is determined by the United | ||
| States Department of the Treasury or any other qualified state or | ||
| federal authority to have been made for an improper use, the | ||
| appropriated money not be spent and instead be retained in the | ||
| treasury and available for later legislative appropriation. | ||
| SECTION 7. APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY UNDER FEDERAL LAW. The | ||
| appropriations made under Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Act using | ||
| 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) are made in | ||
| accordance with 42 U.S.C. Section 802(c)(1)(C), which allows money | ||
| from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund to be used to | ||
| provide government services to the extent of a reduction in the | ||
| revenue of a state government caused by the COVID-19 public health | ||
| emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full | ||
| fiscal year of the state government that ended before that | ||
| emergency. | ||
| SECTION 8. APPLICABILITY OF TRANSFER PROVISIONS OF OTHER | ||
| LAW. The transfer provisions of Part 14, Article IX, Chapter 1053 | ||
| (S.B. 1), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021 (the | ||
| General Appropriations Act), and the transfer provisions of Section | ||
| 65, Chapter 995 (H.B. 2), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2021 (the Supplemental Appropriations Act), apply to the | ||
| appropriations made by this Act to allow appropriate transfer of | ||
| appropriations made by this Act as if the appropriations made by the | ||
| General Appropriations Act, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, | ||
| and this Act were all a part of the same Act, to the extent permitted | ||
| by federal law. | ||
| SECTION 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect | ||
| immediately. | ||
