Bill Text: TX SB962 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the determination of the sufficient balance of the economic stabilization fund for the purpose of allocating general revenue to that fund and the state highway fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB962-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the determination of the sufficient balance of the economic stabilization fund for the purpose of allocating general revenue to that fund and the state highway fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB962 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB962-Introduced.html
86R9697 BRG-D | ||
By: Nichols | S.B. No. 962 |
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relating to the determination of the sufficient balance of the | ||
economic stabilization fund for purposes of allocating general | ||
revenue to that fund and the state highway fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 316.092(a), (b), and (c), Government | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year | ||
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the lieutenant governor shall appoint a select committee as | ||
follows: | ||
(1) the speaker of the house of representatives shall | ||
appoint five members of the house of representatives as members of | ||
the committee; and | ||
(2) the lieutenant governor shall appoint five members | ||
of the senate as members of the committee. | ||
(b) For the purposes of Section 49-g(c-2), Article III, | ||
Texas Constitution, not later than December 1 of each even-numbered | ||
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for the next state fiscal biennium a sufficient balance of the fund | ||
in an amount that the committee estimates will ensure an | ||
appropriate amount of revenue available in the fund. In | ||
determining the sufficient balance for that fiscal biennium, the | ||
committee shall consider: | ||
(1) the history of fund balances; | ||
(2) the history of transfers to the fund; | ||
(3) estimated fund balances during that fiscal | ||
biennium; | ||
(4) estimated transfers to the fund to occur during | ||
that fiscal biennium; | ||
(5) information available to the committee regarding | ||
state highway congestion and funding demands; and | ||
(6) any other information requested by the committee | ||
regarding the state's financial condition. | ||
(c) On or before October 1 of each even-numbered year | ||
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committee the comptroller's projection of the amounts to be | ||
transferred to the fund during the next state fiscal biennium. | ||
SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Government Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 316.092(e); | ||
(2) Sections 316.093(e) and (f); and | ||
(3) Section 404.0241(d). | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |