Texas 2009 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB377 Introduced / Fiscal Note

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                    LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD    Austin, Texas      FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION            March 6, 2009      TO: Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, Chair, House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock      FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board     IN RE:HB377 by Miller, Sid (Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Rural Job Development Fund.), As Introduced    No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.  The bill would amend Government Code to create the Texas Rural Job Development Fund to promote rural employment opportunities. This bill would allow the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise to be used to make one or more grants to the Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) to implement the office's powers and duties relating to rural job development.  The bill would would also promote rural employment and would create a new Texas Rural Job Development Fund as an account in the General Revenue Fund and would specify how it would be funded and how the fund could be used.  The bill would establish that sources of funding for the newly created fund would include legislative appropriations, money received from the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise Fund, and any gifts, grants, donations, and matching funds received by ORCA . The bill would make implementation of the program contingent on appropriation of funding by the Legislature and would require ORCA to develop rules for the program no later than March 1, 2010.  The legislation would do one or more of the following:  create or recreate a dedicated account in the General Revenue Fund, create or recreate a special or trust fund either with or outside of the Treasury, or create a dedicated revenue source.  The fund, account, or revenue dedication included in this bill would be subject to funds consolidation review by the current Legislature. Local Government Impact No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.    Source Agencies:304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 357 Office of Rural Community Affairs   LBB Staff:  JOB, WK, MW, CH    

LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 81ST LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
March 6, 2009





  TO: Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, Chair, House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock      FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board     IN RE:HB377 by Miller, Sid (Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Rural Job Development Fund.), As Introduced  

TO: Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, Chair, House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock
FROM: John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE: HB377 by Miller, Sid (Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Rural Job Development Fund.), As Introduced

 Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, Chair, House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock 

 Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, Chair, House Committee on Agriculture & Livestock 

 John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board

 John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board

HB377 by Miller, Sid (Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Rural Job Development Fund.), As Introduced

HB377 by Miller, Sid (Relating to the creation and funding of the Texas Rural Job Development Fund.), As Introduced



No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.



The bill would amend Government Code to create the Texas Rural Job Development Fund to promote rural employment opportunities. This bill would allow the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise to be used to make one or more grants to the Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) to implement the office's powers and duties relating to rural job development.  The bill would would also promote rural employment and would create a new Texas Rural Job Development Fund as an account in the General Revenue Fund and would specify how it would be funded and how the fund could be used.  The bill would establish that sources of funding for the newly created fund would include legislative appropriations, money received from the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise Fund, and any gifts, grants, donations, and matching funds received by ORCA . The bill would make implementation of the program contingent on appropriation of funding by the Legislature and would require ORCA to develop rules for the program no later than March 1, 2010.  The legislation would do one or more of the following:  create or recreate a dedicated account in the General Revenue Fund, create or recreate a special or trust fund either with or outside of the Treasury, or create a dedicated revenue source.  The fund, account, or revenue dedication included in this bill would be subject to funds consolidation review by the current Legislature.

The bill would amend Government Code to create the Texas Rural Job Development Fund to promote rural employment opportunities.

This bill would allow the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise to be used to make one or more grants to the Office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA) to implement the office's powers and duties relating to rural job development.  The bill would would also promote rural employment and would create a new Texas Rural Job Development Fund as an account in the General Revenue Fund and would specify how it would be funded and how the fund could be used.  The bill would establish that sources of funding for the newly created fund would include legislative appropriations, money received from the General Revenue Account 5107Texas Enterprise Fund, and any gifts, grants, donations, and matching funds received by ORCA .

The bill would make implementation of the program contingent on appropriation of funding by the Legislature and would require ORCA to develop rules for the program no later than March 1, 2010. 

The legislation would do one or more of the following:  create or recreate a dedicated account in the General Revenue Fund, create or recreate a special or trust fund either with or outside of the Treasury, or create a dedicated revenue source.  The fund, account, or revenue dedication included in this bill would be subject to funds consolidation review by the current Legislature.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies: 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 357 Office of Rural Community Affairs

304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 357 Office of Rural Community Affairs

LBB Staff: JOB, WK, MW, CH

 JOB, WK, MW, CH