Bill Text: TX HB3328 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain state fiscal matters.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-15 - Left pending in committee [HB3328 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3328-Introduced.html

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84R10637 JJT-D
By: Otto H.B. No. 3328

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain state fiscal matters.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. On September 1, 2015, the Texas Department of
Motor Vehicles fund created by Section 1001.151, Transportation
Code, as enacted by Section 71, Chapter 1287 (H.B. 2202), Acts of
the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is re-created by this
Act as a special fund in the state treasury outside the general
revenue fund, and all revenue dedicated for deposit to the credit of
the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles fund by a provision of
Chapter 1287 (H.B. 2202), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013, is rededicated by this Act for that purpose.
SECTION 2. On September 1, 2015, the environmental
radiation and perpetual care account created by Section 401.306,
Health and Safety Code, as enacted by Section 12, Chapter 1159 (S.B.
347), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is
re-created by this Act as an account in the general revenue fund,
and all revenue dedicated for deposit to the credit of the
environmental radiation and perpetual care account by a provision
of Chapter 1159 (S.B. 347), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013, is rededicated by this Act for that purpose.
SECTION 3. Section 161.060(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) This subsection and Subsection (b) expire September 1,
2017 [2015].
SECTION 4. Section 403.093(d), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) The comptroller shall transfer from the general revenue
fund to the foundation school fund an amount of money necessary to
fund the foundation school program as provided by Chapter 42,
Education Code. The comptroller shall make the transfers in
installments as necessary to comply with Section 42.259, Education
Code, and permit the Texas Education Agency, to the extent
authorized by the General Appropriations Act, to make temporary
transfers from the foundation school fund for payment of the
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, Education
Code. Unless an earlier date is necessary for purposes of temporary
transfers for payment of the instructional materials allotment, an
[An] installment must be made not earlier than two days before the
date an installment to school districts is required by Section
42.259, Education Code, and must not exceed the amount necessary
for that payment and any temporary transfers for payment of the
instructional materials allotment.
SECTION 5. Section 411.013, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 411.013. [EXPENDITURES,] DONATIONS AND USE OF
DONATIONS [, AND APPROPRIATIONS].
[(b)] The department may accept donations of money and other
real or personal property from any individual, group, association,
corporation, or governmental agency and may use those donations for
any purpose designated by the donor that furthers the exercise of
duties imposed by law on the department.
[(c) Appropriations for the Texas Highway Patrol must be
made from the state highway fund.]
SECTION 6. Section 2054.102, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), (a-3),
and (a-4) to read as follows:
(a) The Legislative Budget Board may specify procedures for
[the] submission, review, approval, and disapproval of biennial
operating plans and amendments, including procedures for review or
reconsideration of the Legislative Budget Board's disapproval of a
biennial operating plan or biennial operating plan amendment. The
Legislative Budget Board shall review and approve or disapprove the
biennial operating plan for a state fiscal biennium on or before [or
biennial operating plan amendment not later than] the 60th day
after the last day of the regular legislative session held during
the calendar year during which that state fiscal biennium begins
[date the plan or amendment to the plan is submitted].
(a-1) If an amendment to a biennial operating plan is
submitted to the Legislative Budget Board on a date that falls
during the period beginning September 1 of an even-numbered year
and ending the last day of the following regular legislative
session, the Legislative Budget Board shall review and approve or
disapprove the amendment on or before the 60th day after the last
day of that regular legislative session.
(a-2) If an [The plan or] amendment to a biennial operating
[the] plan is submitted to the Legislative Budget Board on a date
that falls outside of the period described by Subsection (a-1), the
Legislative Budget Board shall review and approve or disapprove the
amendment on or before the 60th day after the date the amendment is
submitted.
(a-3) The Legislative Budget Board may extend the deadline
for the Legislative Budget Board's action on an amendment to a
biennial operating plan by the number of days the review of the
amendment is delayed while board staff waits for the submission of
additional information regarding the amendment requested by the
staff as necessary for the completion of the review.
(a-4) An amendment to a biennial operating plan is
considered to be approved [on the 61st day after the date the plan
or amendment is submitted] if the Legislative Budget Board does not
disapprove the [plan or] amendment before the later of:
(1) the day following the last day of the period for
approval or disapproval of the amendment as provided by Subsection
(a-1) or (a-2), as applicable; or
(2) the day following the last day of the period for
approval or disapproval of the amendment as extended under
Subsection (a-3) [that date].
SECTION 7. Sections 502.357(b) and (c), Transportation
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) Fees collected under this section shall be deposited to
the credit of the state highway fund except that the comptroller
shall provide for a portion of the fees to be deposited first to the
credit of a special fund in the state treasury outside the general
revenue fund to be known as the TexasSure Fund in a total amount
that is necessary to cover the total amount appropriated to the
Texas Department of Insurance from that fund and for the remaining
fees to be deposited to the state highway fund. Subject to
appropriations, the money deposited to the credit of the state
highway fund under this section may [shall] be used by the
Department of Public Safety to:
(1) support the Department of Public Safety's
reengineering of the driver's license system to provide for the
issuance by the Department of Public Safety of a driver's license or
personal identification certificate, to include use of image
comparison technology;
(2) establish and maintain a system to support the
driver responsibility program under Chapter 708; and
(3) make lease payments to the master lease purchase
program for the financing of the driver's license reengineering
project.
(c) [Fees collected under this section shall be deposited to
the credit of the state highway fund.] Subject to appropriation,
fees collected under this section [the money] may be used by the
Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Insurance, the
Department of Information Resources, and the department to carry
out Subchapter N, Chapter 601.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.