Bill Text: TX SR709 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on H.J.R. 125.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR709 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR709-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction on H.J.R. 125.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR709 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR709-Introduced.html
88R33230 DIO-D | ||
By: Huffman | S.R. No. 709 |
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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 | ||
Joint Resolution 125 (creating the broadband infrastructure fund to | ||
expand high-speed broadband access and assist in the financing of | ||
connectivity projects) 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 joint resolution in proposed SECTION 1 of the joint | ||
resolution, by adding Section 49-d-16(f), Article III, Texas | ||
Constitution, to read as follows: | ||
(f) The comptroller may transfer money from the fund to | ||
another fund as provided by general law. The state agency that | ||
administers the fund to which the money is transferred as | ||
authorized by this subsection may use the money without further | ||
appropriation only for the expansion of access to and adoption of | ||
broadband and telecommunications services as provided by general | ||
law. | ||
Explanation: The added text would enable the comptroller of | ||
public accounts to transfer money from the broadband infrastructure | ||
fund to another fund, authorizing the state agency administering | ||
the fund to which the money is transferred to use it only for the | ||
expansion of access to and adoption of broadband and | ||
telecommunications services. |