Bill Text: TX SR918 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on SB 1289.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-27 - Reported enrolled [SR918 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SR918-Enrolled.html
By: Creighton | S.R. No. 918 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, That Senate Rule 12.03 be | ||
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 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) Senate Rule 12.03(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) Senate Rule 12.03(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. | ||
_______________________________ | ||
President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on May 27, 2017, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3. | ||
_______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate |