Bill Text: TX HR2552 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1289.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-31 - Reported enrolled [HR2552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR2552-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1289.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-31 - Reported enrolled [HR2552 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR2552-Introduced.html
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By: Paddie | H.R. No. 2552 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of | ||
Texas, 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, 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 Senate Bill 1289 (the purchase of iron | ||
and steel products made in the United States for certain | ||
governmental entity projects) to consider and take action on the | ||
following matters: | ||
(1) 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 by adding, in SECTION 1 of the | ||
bill, the following: | ||
Sec. 2252.2025. REPORT. (a) Not later than December 1, | ||
2018, the Texas Water Development Board shall electronically submit | ||
to the state auditor a report on all contracts for construction of a | ||
project that received financial assistance under Chapter 15, 16, or | ||
17, Water Code, during the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2017. | ||
The report must include: | ||
(1) the impacts on a political subdivision that has | ||
obtained or applied for financial assistance from the board under | ||
Chapter 15, 16, or 17, Water Code; and | ||
(2) for each project that has obtained financial | ||
assistance as described by this subsection: | ||
(A) the country of origin of the iron and steel | ||
products used in the project, in accordance with 19 U.S.C. Section | ||
1304; | ||
(B) the cost and quantity of all iron and steel | ||
products received from each country of origin for the project; and | ||
(C) any related bond information, including the | ||
credit rating of general obligation bonds or revenue bonds issued | ||
by the board to finance or refinance projects included in the state | ||
water plan and the potential impact to that credit rating as a | ||
result of the bond issuance by the board. | ||
(b) The state auditor shall prepare a summary on the report | ||
submitted under Subsection (a) and electronically submit the | ||
summary to the legislature not later than January 1, 2019. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
Explanation: The change is necessary to require the Texas | ||
Water Development Board to electronically submit to the state | ||
auditor a report on all contracts for construction of projects that | ||
received financial assistance from the board under Chapter 15, 16, | ||
or 17, Water Code, during the state fiscal year ending August 31, | ||
2017, and to require the state auditor to submit to the legislature | ||
a summary of that report. | ||
(2) House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(1), is suspended to permit | ||
the committee to amend text not in disagreement in proposed SECTION | ||
6(b) of the bill, in the transition provisions of the bill, to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) Subchapter F, Chapter 2252, Government Code, as added by | ||
this Act, does not apply to a project as described by Section 15.432 | ||
or 15.472, Water Code, that the Texas Water Development Board has | ||
formally approved for financial assistance. In this subsection, | ||
the term "formally approved" means any project that is the subject | ||
of a resolution approving an application for financial assistance | ||
adopted by the Texas Water Development Board before May 1, 2019, for | ||
any portion of the financing of the project. | ||
Explanation: The change is necessary to extend the time | ||
before certain contracts are subject to Subchapter F, Chapter 2252, | ||
Government Code, as added by the Act, to allow the Texas Water | ||
Development Board to submit the report and the state auditor to | ||
submit the summary required by Section 2252.2025, Government Code, | ||
as added by the Act. |