Bill Text: TX SR707 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on H.B. 9.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR707-Enrolled.html
| By: Huffman | S.R. No. 707 | |
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| BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 88th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, 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 | ||
| House Bill 9 (the development and funding of broadband and | ||
| telecommunications services) to consider and take action on the | ||
| following matter: | ||
| 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 in proposed SECTIONS 3(a), (c), and (d) of the | ||
| bill to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The comptroller of public accounts shall make a | ||
| one-time transfer in the amount of $155,200,000 from the | ||
| broadband infrastructure fund established under Section 49-d-16, | ||
| Article III, Texas Constitution, to the next generation 9-1-1 | ||
| service fund established under Section 771.0713, Health and | ||
| Safety Code. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Section 5, Chapter 10 (S.B. 8), Acts | ||
| of the 87th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 2021, the | ||
| comptroller of public accounts may not use funds appropriated | ||
| under that section to support the Texas Broadband Pole | ||
| Replacement Program established under Section 403.503, | ||
| Government Code, as added by Chapter 659 (H.B. 1505), Acts of the | ||
| 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| (d) The comptroller of public accounts shall transfer the | ||
| amounts described by Subsections (a) and (b) of this section not | ||
| later than September 15, 2024. | ||
| Explanation: The added text would require the comptroller | ||
| of public accounts to make a one-time transfer from the broadband | ||
| infrastructure fund to the next generation 9-1-1 service fund, | ||
| prohibit the use of certain appropriated money in the Texas | ||
| Broadband Pole Replacement Program after the effective date of | ||
| the bill, and provide that the one-time transfers of money | ||
| required by the bill be made not later than September 15, 2024. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on May 28, 2023, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
