Bill Text: TX HB2290 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the use for administrative costs of a portion of money received by certain entities to implement a supplemental environmental project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2290 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2290-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use for administrative costs of a portion of money received by certain entities to implement a supplemental environmental project.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2290 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2290-Comm_Sub.html
By: Lozano, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Estes) | H.B. No. 2290 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; | ||
May 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | ||
Resources; May 15, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 10, Nays 1; May 15, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the use for administrative costs of a portion of money | ||
received by certain entities to implement a supplemental | ||
environmental project. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7.067, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The commission may allow a local government or an | ||
organization exempt from federal income taxation under Section | ||
501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as an organization described | ||
by Section 501(c)(3) of that code, that receives money from a | ||
respondent to implement a supplemental environmental project under | ||
this section to use a portion of the money, not to exceed 10 percent | ||
of the direct cost of the project, for administrative costs, | ||
including overhead costs, personnel salary and fringe benefits, and | ||
travel and per diem expenses, associated with implementing the | ||
project. Money used for administrative costs under this subsection | ||
must be used in accordance with Chapter 783, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 7.067(c), Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies to money received to implement a supplemental | ||
environmental project under Section 7.067, Water Code, regardless | ||
of whether the money was received on, before, or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2013. | ||
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