Bill Text: TX HB275 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to making an appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund for expenditure during the current state fiscal biennium.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB275 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB275-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 275

AN ACT
relating to making an appropriation of money from the economic
stabilization fund for expenditure during the current state fiscal
biennium.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) The amount of $3,198,661,120 is appropriated
from the economic stabilization fund to the comptroller of public
accounts for the purpose of depositing that amount to the credit of
the general revenue fund as money available for use during the state
fiscal year ending August 31, 2011, to make expenditures previously
authorized by appropriations from general revenue for the state
fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2011.
(b) This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote of
three-fifths of the members present in each house of the
legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(k), Article III, Texas
Constitution, and is subject to certification by the comptroller of
public accounts as provided by that subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 275 was passed by the House on April
1, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 275 on May 19, 2011, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 275 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 123,
Nays 21, 2 present, not voting; passed subject to the provisions of
Article III, Section 49a, of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 275 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 16, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
275 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; passed
subject to the provisions of Article III, Section 49a, of the
Constitution of the State of Texas.
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Secretary of the Senate
I certify that the amounts appropriated in the herein H.B.
No. 275, Regular Session of the 82nd Legislature, are within
amounts estimated to be available in the affected fund.
Certified_____________________
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Comptroller of Public Accounts
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor