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Floor Packet Page No. 6
Amend CSSB 1 as follows:
In Article I, page I-30, Fiscal Programs - Comptroller of
Public Accounts, insert an additional rider as follows:
Contingency Appropriation for HB 2201 ("FutureGen" project).
Contingent upon enactment of HB 2201 or similar legislation
authorizing grants for development in Texas of the coal-based
integrated sequestration and hydrogen research project to be built
in partnership with the United States Department of Energy,
commonly referred to as the FutureGen project: (1) in fiscal year
2006, $2 million out of appropriations to the Texas Enterprise Fund
shall be transferred to the State Energy Conservation Office for
the purpose of financing a state response to a Request for Proposals
to be issued by the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the
FutureGen project; and (2) further contingent on selection of a
Texas site for the FutureGen project, $20 million out of fiscal year
2006 or 2007 appropriations to the Texas Enterprise Fund shall be
transferred to the State Energy Conservation Office for the purpose
of providing grants to the managing entity of the FutureGen
project.