Bill Text: TX SB1370 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the deposit of money received from the federal government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-04 - Referred to s/c on Fiscal Matters by Chair [SB1370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1370-Introduced.html
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By: Davis | S.B. No. 1370 |
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relating to the deposit of money received from the federal | ||
government. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 404.094, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) Money that is required by this subchapter or by another | ||
law to be deposited in the treasury shall be deposited to the credit | ||
of the general revenue fund unless the money is required by | ||
Subsection (e) or otherwise expressly required to be deposited to | ||
another fund, trust fund, or special account not in the general | ||
revenue fund. This subsection does not affect the authority of the | ||
comptroller to establish and use accounts necessary to manage and | ||
account for state revenues and expenditures. | ||
(e) Notwithstanding any other law and except as otherwise | ||
required by federal law or this state's constitution, the | ||
comptroller shall deposit money collected or received from the | ||
federal government to the credit of: | ||
(1) a fund in the state treasury outside the general | ||
revenue fund that is specified by general law; or | ||
(2) if general law does not specify a fund described by | ||
Subdivision (1), another fund in the state treasury outside the | ||
general revenue fund, or an account in another of those funds, | ||
established by the comptroller for purposes of this subsection. | ||
(f) The comptroller may establish funds in the state | ||
treasury outside the general revenue fund and accounts in those | ||
funds as necessary for purposes of Subsection (e). | ||
(g) Subsection (e) does not affect a dedication of money to | ||
one or more purposes or entities that is specified by general law or | ||
otherwise affect authority to spend money as provided by general | ||
law. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 404.094, Government Code, as amended by | ||
this Act, applies only to money received from the federal | ||
government on or after September 1, 2015. Money received from the | ||
federal government before that date is governed by the law in effect | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |