Bill Text: TX HR2466 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 9.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [HR2466 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2466-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2466 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of | ||
Texas, 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, That House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to | ||
resolve the differences on House Bill 9 (the development and | ||
funding of broadband and telecommunications services) to consider | ||
and take action on the following matter: | ||
House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the | ||
committee to add text on a matter not included in either the house | ||
or senate version of the bill in proposed SECTIONS 3(a), (c), and | ||
(d) of the bill to read as follows: | ||
(a) The comptroller of public accounts shall make a one-time | ||
transfer in the amount of $155,200,000 from the broadband | ||
infrastructure fund established under Section 49-d-16, Article | ||
III, Texas Constitution, to the next generation 9-1-1 service fund | ||
established under Section 771.0713, Health and Safety Code. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Section 5, Chapter 10 (S.B. 8), Acts of | ||
the 87th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 2021, the comptroller of | ||
public accounts may not use funds appropriated under that section | ||
to support the Texas Broadband Pole Replacement Program established | ||
under Section 403.503, Government Code, as added by Chapter 659 | ||
(H.B. 1505), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
after the effective date of this Act. | ||
(d) The comptroller of public accounts shall transfer the | ||
amounts described by Subsections (a) and (b) of this section not | ||
later than September 15, 2024. | ||
Explanation: The added text would require the comptroller of | ||
public accounts to make a one-time transfer from the broadband | ||
infrastructure fund to the next generation 9-1-1 service fund, | ||
prohibit the use of certain appropriated money in the Texas | ||
Broadband Pole Replacement Program after the effective date of the | ||
bill, and provide that the one-time transfers of money required by | ||
the bill be made not later than September 15, 2024. | ||
Ashby | ||
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Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2466 was adopted by the House on May | ||
28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||