83R2797 SMH-D
By: Ritter H.B. No. 11
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appropriation of money from the economic
stabilization fund to finance certain water-related projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. (a) If the state water implementation fund for
Texas is created by legislation enacted by the 83rd Legislature,
Regular Session, 2013, the amount of $2 billion is appropriated
from the economic stabilization fund to the comptroller for the
purpose of depositing that amount to the credit of the state water
implementation fund for Texas as money available for use by the
Texas Water Development Board for the purposes of the state water
implementation fund for Texas.
(b) If the state water implementation fund for Texas is not
created by legislation enacted by the 83rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013, the amount of $2 billion is appropriated from the
economic stabilization fund to the comptroller for the purpose of
depositing that amount to the credit of the Texas Water Development
Fund II as money available for use by the Texas Water Development
Board for the purposes of the Texas Water Development Fund II.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013, but only
if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each
house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article
III, Texas Constitution.