BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center C.S.H.B. 10
By: Pitts (Ogden)
Committee Report (Substituted)
AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Each legislative session, state agencies project the costs of fulfilling their functions and providing important services for the following two-year budget period. A significant portion of the state’s general revenue budget is based on projected public school enrollment and caseloads in the Medicaid program. Actual public school enrollment and caseloads in Medicaid have exceeded projections made during the 78th legislative session, and several other agencies require additional funding for certain purposes.
C.S.H.B. 10 makes adjustments in appropriations for various state agencies. C.S.H.B. 10 appropriates funds from various sources including: the general revenue fund, general revenue dedicated funds, matching federal funds, the Economic Stabilization Fund, and other funds.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTIONS 1-27. Sets forth specific supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations to various entities and state agencies.
SECTION 28. Makes application of this Act prospective to September 1, 2005, and September 1, 2006. Provides that reductions will be made, if necessary.
SECTION 29. Requires each entity appropriated money by this Act and each agency for which a an amount of appropriations is reduced by this Act, on August 1, 2005, and on such other dates as the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) considers to be necessary, to report to the LBB, in a format specified by the LBB, the information requested by the LBB regarding use of the money appropriated by this Act or the measures taken to reduce appropriations as required by this Act.
SECTION 30. Provides that the provisions of this Act that make appropriations out of the Economic Stabilization Fund, or that make appropriations of matching federal funds the receipt of which is dependent on an appropriation out of the Economic Stabilization Fund, take effect only if this Act receives the vote required by Section 49-g, Article III, Texas Constitution.
SECTION 31. Effective date: upon passage.