81st Session: Appropriations Liveblogging Part II

7:08 p.m. Dunnam up on an amendment but Hochberg is explaining it.

7:12 p.m. The issue with the amendment is the property tax relief fund. The amendment reduces the amount of funding the Texas Education Agency receives from General Revenue, Foundation School Fund from $12,180,464,992 to $9,180,464,922 and replaces that $3,000,000,000 with funding from the Property Tax Relief Fund.

7:15 p.m. House is recessing until 7:45.

7:51 p.m.: Straus calls ‘em back to order (for the first time).

7:52 p.m: Vote on adoption of Dunnam amendment. Unanimous. WOW!!

7:54. p.m. Madden amendment on TYC passes w/o dissent. It adds a requirement to Rider 6 that the Windham School District report to the 82nd Legislature the recidivism and employment rates during the 2010?11 biennium of district students who successfully complete the district’s program. (Windham is the TDC school system).

7:57 p.m. I don’t remember it being this slow last year. Amendment by Hancock requires that priority in spending adult education funds be given to programs that include training in financial literacy and occupational foundation skills.

7:59 p.m. Amendment to the amendment to change “shall” to “may.” Amendment to amendment adopted. Amendment adopted.

8:00 p.m. Amendment by Guillen (D-Rio Grande City) requires TEA to spend the increase in state and federal adult basic education funds based on need. There is an amendment to the amendment as well.

8:03 Amendment to amendment acceptable to author. Adoption moved. Amendment is adopted also.

8:04 p.m. Amendment by Walle requires TEA to conduct a study regarding high dropout rates among students with limited English proficiency and students with parents with limited English proficiency under the Texas High School Completion and Success Initiative.

Look for controversy.

8:06 p.m. no controversy, it is adopted.

8:08 p.m. We had to dump the live chat because it was making the site run slow. Just comment in the comments on this post if you want to have a live chat with us on the budget, or hit us up at Twitter.com/CapitolAnnex.

8:10 Villarreal up with an amendment. It zeros out and strikes the Student and Educator Excellence Awards Program and moves its funding ($342,781,457) to the Foundation School Funds – Equalized Operations.

(DUMPS INCENTIVE PAY AND MOVES IT TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, MOVES THIS MONEY TO SCHOOL FINANCE!)

Contingent upon passage of legislation returning to a formula?driven public school finance system that improves equity, reduces recapture, provides for increases to educator salary, improves educator effectiveness and directs districts to make improvements in the equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers, the funding will be split per year over the biennium to provide for increases to educators’ salaries. If such legislation fails to pass, the $342,781,457 that was swept from the Student and Educator Excellence Awards Program is reinstated.

The amendment does not do away with incentive pay programs. Districts may maintain existing plans or develop new incentive plans based on future needs. The amendment would maintain core funding priorities for the program, and allow for more equitable distribution of funds to more

school districts to meet local needs related to educator quality.

Last session, the Texas House voted to sweep the entire fund of the Student and Educator Excellence Awards Program and provide an across-the-board teacher pay raise. This amendment was later halved in conference committee and half the money returned to the incentive program and half used for teacher pay raises. This amendment would follow the intent of the legislature from last session in doing away with a divisive incentive pay program and lay the foundation for equitable distribution of educator salaries under a formula?driven public school finance system.

Teachers’ pay in the state of Texas is $5,000 less than the national average.

8:13 Villarreal is up again. He notes “it raises teacher pay, incentivizes performances, increases equity…reduces recapture, increase local control and reduces state bureaucracy. Moves passage.

8:14 Chisum is up. He wants to know how much this increases teacher pay. Villarreal says there are two things the amendment accomplishes. Number one, qualification on school finance bill that was currently in orig. rider as “may” provide teacher pay raise to “shall” provide teacher pay raise. More importantly, he says, it removes $ from a TEA grant program into formula funding, reducing recapture and still having the funds to carry out the original purpose which is to allow schools to design and run programs to fill hard to fill positions, etc.

8:16 WADA is mentioned. For those who don’t know, WADA is Weighted Average Daily Attendance. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. DID WARREN CHISUM JUST SAY THAT VILLARREAL HAS A FABULOUS AMENDMENT??? IT IS ARMAGEDDEON!!!!!!!!

8:17 p.m. pause due to technical difficulty; the amendment didn’t fully scan. So much for legislative technology.

8:20 amendment acceptable to author. SCRATCH THAT. RECORD VOTE REQUESTED. OH, now a yield is requested.

8:21 Dianne Patrick (R-Arlington) is up asking questions, says a lot of teachers are “satisfied” with the program. Villarreal says that existing programs will still qualify for the money.

8:22 record vote. Passed 146-0.

8:29 Dutton amendment passes that adds the requirement that the Commissioner expend funds from the Student Success Initiative (Rider 42) to schools for the implementation of scientific, research?based

programs for “students unlikely to achieve college readiness by the end of the 11th grade.” In addition, the amendment directs the Commissioner to allocation $25 million over the biennium for

targeted assistance to promote student success and close achievement gaps at campuses with disproportionately high numbers of 11th grade students identified as unlikely to achieve college readiness standards.

8:30 Amendment by Kolkhorst to include Windham school district teachers on pay raise from 2007 moves $337,117 from Statewide Educational Programs to FSP – Equalized Operations in both FY10 and FY11 for an increase in educator salary at Windham School District.

The amendment maintains the salary increase passed by the 80h Legislature for the 2008?09 school year. The amendment also decreases the allocation to implement programs that promote student

success, minimize assessment failure and close student achievement gaps from $154,496,767 to $154,159,650 for FY10 and FY11.

8:31 p.m. Kolkhorst moves passage. Acceptable to author, it passes.

8:33 amendment by Coleman Amendment requires TEA to use funds allocated to the Assessment and Accountability System to implement a reporting mechanism for school districts to report any incident of alleged

discrimination or harassment of a district employee or student on the basis of actual or perceived ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, religion or national origin to TEA. The agency must include the information in the Comprehensive Annual Report. Same harassment amendment as adopted last year.

8:34 anti-equal rights Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) raises a Point Of Order saying it creates general law.

8:34 both amendment and po/o temp. withdrawn.

8:35 amendment by Walle Amendment directs the Commissioner of Education to use funds in the Child Nutrition Program to increase enrollment in the program. The amendment also requires TEA to include the annual percentage increase or decrease in enrollment in the program in an annual report to the Legislature.

8:36 Leo Berman is up now asking if it creates a new program. Walle says no, Berman wants to know how much it will cost, Walle says nothing b/c federal dollars (Duh, Leo!)

8:37 Clean up amendment to amendment by Walle.

8:38 Amendment is adopted.

8:39 Amendment by Phillips would take the funds reserved in Rider 83 for a school finance bill that would likely include a real teacher pay raise and use the funding for a one time $1,000 bonus for school employees to those covered by minimum salary schedule. The remaining funds would be sent to school districts with priority for those below state average WADA. This present three major problems: the funds would not be tied to an effort to reform and improve school finance; the bonus is per capita, thus outside equitable funding formulas; and the bonus does nothing to lift teacher salaries for the long term.

8:42 p.m. Amendment and point of order withdrawn.

8:43 p.m. Misc amendments being pulled.

8:44 by Olivo. Expect fireworks because it moves $160,000 for FY10 and FY11 from the Office of State-Federal Relations to TEA for the purpose of collecting and making available best practices information regarding public school dropout prevention and recovery through the online clearinghouse of best practices information.

8:45 p.m. Amendment to amendment adopted. Olivo moves passage. Amendment acceptable to author, the amendment is adopted.

8:46 Villareal withdraws amendment that prohibits TEA from using any funds for the purpose of providing medically inaccurate instruction regarding contraceptives and amendment that prohibits TEA from using any funds for the purpose of providing medically inaccurate instruction regarding human sexuality.

8:48 p.m. Amendment by Martinez Fisher directs the Teacher Retirement System to make a good faith effort to hire minority investment fund managers. (redux?) King raises point of order that it creates general law. We’ll see.

8:49 p.m. PO/O withdrawn. Anchia has an amendment to the amendment. It harmonizes the language in the ERS amendment striking “minority investment” and “emerging manager funds.”

8:51 p.m. Waiting on another amendment.

8:56 p.m. Chisum raises a point of order, same one as King.

8:59 point of order withdrawn. This is a merry go round.

9:00 new amendment, previous one adopted. This amendment by Coleman creates a middle class families scholarship. From the Legislative Study Group’s analyisis of the amendment:

In May 2008, the Legislative Study Group released an analysis on the state of higher education in Texas. Amongst other things, the LSG called for creating a new, academic based scholarship for Texas students.

While overall funding for TEXAS Grants and student loans have increased – and CSSB 1 does an excellent job of restoring prior cuts to the TEXAS Grant program – they have not risen on par with the escalating cost of tuition. During times of economic uncertainty, when the cost of tuition continues to increase, the Legislature should create a separate and new fund for academic?based scholarships so that students do not have to graduate from college burdened with large debt.

This proposed amendment would provide higher education opportunities to achieving students. This would serve to benefit middle income families that have had to bear the brunt of skyrocketing tuition rates. The great toll that has been taken on average Texas families has forced them to search out additional loans to cover the cost of rising tuition.

By creating an additional fund to aid these families, the state would be providing great academic incentive for students while reducing the amount of debt they and their parents must face upon graduation.

This will be dollars over and above “Be On Time” if aval.

9:02 Morrison up with a question. “What you are doing is, there is, when we take the 20 percent of increased tuition, 5 percent goes to the be on time program. Then we appropriate that money and what you are doing is if there is any overage of that appropriation you are going to put that into scholarship money for middle income students who do not qualify for any other aide” Coleman: “That is correct. Doesn’t effect B on time money at all.”

AWESOME AMENDMENT.

9:04 p.m. Coleman moves amendment. Acceptable to author. Passed!

9:05 p.m. Coleman amendment directs the coordinating board to conduct a study and submit a report on the financial impact of tuition and fees on students enrolled at Texas public institutions of higher education and on the families of those students. Amendment quickly adopted.

9:06 Amendment by Roberto Alonzo academic institutions with substantial Mexican American populations, including junior or community colleges, to utilize GR funds appropriated in Article III to develop and support a Mexican American Studies Program or related course work.

(I thought UT Austin already had a Mexican American studies program? Were such programs unpermitted before this amendment?)

9:07 Alonzo moves adoption. Acceptable to author.

9:09 Amendment by Zerwas strikes the definitions of financially indigent and medically indigent from the Special Provisions Relating Only to State Agencies of Higher Education, and amends “unsponsored charity” to read as “uncompensated care” reporting requirements in accordance with HHSC guidelines.

Previously required to report them based on charges; changed to actual costs not charges. Very convoluted-sounding amendment.

9:10 amendment to amendment. Pena says atmosphere on floor is relaxed.

9:12 Leo Berman (R-Tyler) pulls amendment that would prohibit the use of funds to provide educational services to undocumented students.

9:13 Maldonado introduces and withdraws amendment that would block the expenditure of state funding by any higher education institution that raises its tuition or fees during the biennium.

9:17 Rep. David Leibowitz (D-San Antonio) (my uncle) has a parlim. inqu. and asks if the House is through watching the paint dry.

9:20 Rep. I can’t identify is asking if the Black Caucus conducted a vote without voter ID. What the hell? It must be the biannual witching hour.

9:21 p.m. Rep. Terri Hodge (D-Dallas) who can say “Parlimentary Inquiry” in such a way that it could strike fear into the heart of God himself, plays along w/ whoever that was at 9:20.

9:25 p.m. Coleman amendment that requires TEA to use funds allocated to the Assessment and Accountability System to implement a reporting mechanism for school districts to report any incident of alleged discrimination or harassment of a district employee or student on the basis of actual or perceived ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, religion or national origin to TEA. The agency must include the information in the Comprehensive Annual Report moved to Article 11 & adopted.

9:26 p.m. Amendment by Heflin expresses the intent of the Legislature that no federal or state funds appropriated may be used, directly or indirectly, to pay for a public education voucher program or pilot program for children in grades 1 through 12 to attend a private school.  Similar amendment passed last year.

9:27 Leo Berman has a point of order on grounds it creates new law. Why didn’t he thinkl of that last year.

9:29 Berman withdraws point of order. That’ll hurt him in the governor’s race.

9:30 rest assured there will be a record vote on this.

9:31 what the hell? Heflin said the commissioner of ed spent money on vouchers in the interim? WHAT THE HELL?

9:32 Gallego is up helping Heflin out.

9:34 Jackson is up. Open enrollment charter schools mentioned in amendment and he is asking how it effects charter schools. Heflin says charter schools aren’t prohibited under this.

9:35 amendment to amendment adopted. Record vote requested on the amendment itself. 122-23 passed.

9:39 Phillips is back up with his poison pill amendment that would take the funds reserved in Rider 83 for a school finance bill that would likely include a real teacher pay raise and use the funding for a one time $1,000 bonus for school employees to those covered by minimum salary schedule. The remaining funds would be sent to school districts with priority for those below state average WADA. This present three major problems: the funds would not be tied to an effort to reform and improve school finance; the bonus is per capita, thus outside equitable funding formulas; and the bonus
does nothing to lift teacher salaries for the long term.

Phillips claims it is a backstop in case there is no school finance bill out. NOT TRUE. Says it is only time to vote on pay raise. NOT TRUE.

9:41 Damn, just lost live feed. Bear with us.

9:43 Phillips on a matter of personal privilege.

“I brought this amendment and I’ve never had a personal priv. speech in the prev. three terms but thought it was important we talk about that amendment and what I take from the attitude of those who wanted it to go down that they are committeed to doing what is right for the people of Texas.”

“It also would raise equity. I represent Chapter 42 schools [those are rich schools]. Only way my schools can increase money they can spend is by getting more children…or by raising 13 pennies, the m&o property taxes….”

“Not all of my school districts voted for those…what I know is that we have an equity problem and that we need to fix it.”

“Mr. Hochberg, when you say that is what you want to do, I’ll take your word for it.”

And that’s over at 9:47 p.m.

9:51 Debbie riddle says two amendments need to go to Article 11.

9:52 moving to ARTICLE 5 ALREADY?

9:58 Riddle “moves to move” amendments 192, 194, 209, 210 and 181 to Article 11.

10:01 HERE, FINALLY, is the vote on the Heflin voucher amendment. A NO vote is a vote AGAINST TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

Yeas – Allen; Alonzo; Alvarado; Anchia; Aycock; Bohac; Bolton; Bonnen; Branch; Burnam; Castro; Chavez; Christian; Cohen; Coleman; Cook; Crabb; Creighton; Crownover; Darby; Davis, J.; Davis, Y.; Deshotel; Driver; Dukes; Dunnam; Dutton; Edwards; Eiland; Eissler; Elkins; Farabee; Farias; Farrar; Flores; Frost; Gallego; Gattis; Geren; Giddings; Gonzales; Gonzalez Toureilles; Gutierrez; Hamilton; Hardcastle; Harless; Harper-Brown; Heflin; Hernandez; Herrero; Hilderbran; Hochberg; Hodge; Homer; Hopson; Howard, D.; Hughes; Hunter; Jackson; Jones; Keffer; Kent; King, S.; King, T.; Kleinschmidt; Kolkhorst; Kuempel; Leibowitz; Lewis; Lucio; Madden; Maldonado; Mallory Caraway; Marquez; Martinez; Martinez Fischer; McCall; McClendon; McReynolds; Menendez; Merritt; Miklos; Miller, D.; Miller, S.; Moody; Morrison; Naishtat; Oliveira; Olivo; Orr; Ortiz; Otto; Patrick; Peña; Phillips; Pickett; Pierson; Pitts; Quintanilla; Raymond(C); Rios Ybarra; Ritter; Rodriguez; Rose; Sheffield; Shelton; Smith, T.; Smithee; Solomons; Strama; Swinford; Thibaut; Thompson; Truitt; Turner, C.; Turner, S.; Vaught; Veasey; Villarreal; Vo; Walle; Zerwas

Nays – Anderson; Berman; Brown, B.; Button; Callegari; Chisum; Corte; Craddick; Fletcher; Flynn; Hancock; Hartnett; Howard, C.; King, P.; Laubenberg; Legler; Parker; Paxton; Riddle; Smith, W.; Taylor; Weber; Woolley

Present, not voting – Mr. Speaker

Absent, Excused – England

Absent – Brown, F.; Guillen; Isett

10:03 I have no clue what amendment Turner is talking about. Anyone?

10:03: Debbie Riddle says, “Sylvester, you know you have been my mentor.” Oh, Jesus. She also says she feels his passion. Oh, lord.

10:07. “I don’t want to just shoot it totally. I want to have some left in there,” says Debbie Riddle. Now, we’ll play “let’s take appropriations debate out of context and make it sound dirty….no, really, we won’t, because that’s just gross.

10:09, time expired, point of order, thank god the mutual affection festival is over.

10:12 Coleman in the chair, amendment by Sylvester Turner to reduce the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Information Resources by $3,679,346 each fiscal year, and reduce the Department of Public Safety General Revenue for Information Resources by $1,815,324 each fiscal year. It would also increase the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Treatment Service
by $4,587,008 each fiscal year, and increase the Department of Criminal Justice FTE’s by 112 each fiscal year.

10:13 says it deals with reentry transitional specialists. TDCJ needs 112 reentry specialists and none are funded in budget. 70,000 inmates leave prisons every year.

10:14 Madden is up. “One of the things we’ve been working on all along is making sure there is proper movement for people throughout the system.” Supporting Turner’s amendment.

10:15 Oh my god, More Debbie Riddle. Says request was for 112 FTEs but the money is coming from Information Resources. Turner says yes, we are pulling from G1.5 Informational REsources in TCDJ. House appropriatiojns comm gave them 12 million more for this strategy than what LBB recommended.

10:18 p.m. Sorry we’re not giving you the Riddle/Turner debate verbatim but it is too mind-numbing even for us, and we are literally addicted to the House live feed.

10:22 Riddle moves to table.

10:24 vote. Eiland in the chair, Garnet Coleman is chillin’ by one of the columns on the dais.

10:25 78-57 motion to table fails.

10:25, amendment adopted.

10:26 Amendment by Turner would reduce the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Institutional Services by $10M each fiscal year, and increase the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Substance Abuse Treatment by $5,671,300 in fiscal year 2010 and by $8,425,557 in fiscal year 2011; and increases the departments General Revenue in Intermediate Sanction Facilities by $5,903,143 in fiscal year 2011.

The Diversion Initiatives amounts would be amended as follows:
* Funding for probation outpatient substance abuse treatment would be $5M in each fiscal year

* Funding for probation residential treatment beds (800) would be $18,004,723 in each fiscal year
* Funding for the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI) would be $5M for each fiscal year
* Funding for Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility treatment beds would be $37,226,325 (1,399 beds) in fiscal year 2010, and would be $39,980,583 (1,500 beds) in fiscal year 2011. The treatment would include aftercare in transitional treatment centers and outpatient counseling.
* Funding for In?Prison Therapeutic Community Program expansion (1,000 additional treatment slots) would be $12,054,125 each fiscal year
* Funding for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) treatment beds (500 additional beds) would be $6,027,063 each fiscal year
* Funding for additional treatment slots in State Jails (1,200 beds in existing capacity) would be $2.9M each fiscal year
* Funding for parole halfway houses (300 additional beds) would be $3,542,324 each fiscal year

* Funding for additional probation and parole beds would be $14,375,891 (992 beds) in fiscal year 2010, and would be $20,279,035 (1,400 beds) in fiscal year 2011
Funding shall be appropriated on a per diem or reimbursement basis for services actually provided to offenders or for beds actually occupied by offenders. Any surplus funding shall be returned to the state at the end of the biennium.

More controversy that it is more DIR reductions. Turner explains that this is dealing with $20 million for cars, not the reduction.

10:30 amendment by Madden  would create additional beds for In-Prison Therapeutic Communities. The amendment would reduce the Texas Youth Commission Construct and Renovation Facilities by $5.2M each fiscal year and increase the Texas Department of Criminal Justice In?Prison Therapeutic Communities by $5.2M each fiscal year; creating an additional 400 beds for housing inmates.

10:31 Riddle is up for a question. She raises a point of order but I was talking and missed what it was.

10:33 Riddle withdraws PO/O and Madden wd’s amendment.

10:35 amendment by Coleman to appropriate funds from the Department of Criminal Justice that would be used to fund a pilot program for inmates with mental illness. The department shall use not less than $500,000 in the state fiscal biennium to conduct the pilot project to reduce incarceration stays by individuals who suffer from mental illness. The department shall contract with Texas Southern University for administration and oversight of the project, which shall operate at two sites in the
City of Houston and one site in the City of San Antonio.

(Aftercare treatment for inmates in clubhouse model; well supported programs, Coleman notes)

Amendment adopted.

10:40 amendment by Chisum would require the Department of Criminal Justice and the Managed Care Advisory Committee to identify, evaluate, and may pilot mechanisms to lower the cost of, or increase the quality of care in health or pharmacy services.

“A pilot program or do something” Chisum says. Amendment adopted.

10:43 Amendment by Madden will appropriate funds out of the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Psychiatric Care and Managed Healthcare, and appropriate $500,000 for each fiscal year for loan repayment assistance for medical and mental health care staff.

Was pulled earlier, it lives again. adopted.

10:44 Amendment by Darby appropriates funds out of the Department of Criminal Justice General Revenue for Special Needs Projects, and appropriate $280,000 each fiscal year to provide grants to counties inthe Permian Basin to establish the Permian Basin Mental Health Deputy Program. The program willprovide funding for two deputies in both Ector and Midland Counties. To promote the diversion ofmentally ill individuals from incarceration and assess the offender for appropriate treatment.

10:45 amendment to amendment by Coleman. Expands mental health deputy program to all 254 counties in Texas. GOOD AMENDMENT.

10:46 Heflin has questions. Talking about vast mileage in West Texas. Coleman says it doesn’t take West Texas/Permian Basin Mental Health Deputies isn’t gone, just program expanded statewide.

10:47 Coleman mentions that Buddy West thought of the Permian Basin Program. And Coleman got the rider in the General Appropriations Act. Nice bit of history.

10:51 Coleman says that this will not deplete any other programs.

10:53: Hodge up for questions. Asks if this money comes from pay raise for corrections officer.

10:55: “It came from seven strategies.” Sounds like a great movie title.

10:56 Riddle moves to table. Claims that the money is coming from correction officer salaries. NOt 100 percent true but sounds good.

10:57 Coleman says it doesn’t take pay raise money it will be corrected in conference. Gallego is up for questions.

11:04 Record vote. 95-46 motion to table previals.

11:06 Amendment by Coleman would reduce the Youth Commission appropriation for Institutional Services by $20,376,125 for fiscal year 2010 and $21,664,754 for fiscal year 2011, the funds would be appropriated to the Juvenile Probation Commission for the Harris County pilot program to divert youth from the Youth Commission. The pilot program may include, residential, community?based, family, and aftercare programs but are not limited to those services.

The funds can not be used by local juvenile probation departments for salary increases, costs associated with the employment of staff hired before September 1, 2009, to supplant existing expenditures associated with programs, services, and residential placement of youth within the local juvenile probation departments.

12:52 we’re back after a brief break.

12:56 amendment by Lon Burnam would require TXDoT to notify the Legislative Budget Board and each member of the Legislature of each waiver it intends to make that would waive any requirement of a toll?road entity to compensate property owners affected by projects. The notice would be required to be delivered to the LBB and each legislator at least 30 days prior to date on which the waiver would take effect.

12:57 amendment is temporarily withdrawn. Now to page 2 of supplemental packet no clue what that is. Unemployment fund amendnent. It is adopted.

1:00 a.m. Amendment by Guillen mandates that TxDOT adopt rules to allocate funds under general provisions of funding for public transportation in which the total amount appropriated for the Formula program is less the 90% and the Discretionary program is less than 10%. A provision is required to ensure that the specified programs do not receive less than allocated. Adopted.

1:02 a.m. Amendment by Davis of  Dallas affirms that the Legislature’s intent is for the Texas Transportation Commission to approve funding projects that are geographically balanced across the state.

1:03 amendment by Frost would prohibit TXDoT from entering into contracts for any toll-related project that contains non?compete clauses.

1:06 Amendment by Burnam would require TXDoT to notify the Legislative Budget Board and each member of the Legislature of each waiver it intends to make that would waive any requirement of a toll?road entity to compensate property owners affected by projects. The notice would be required to be delivered to the LBB and each legislator at least 30 days prior to date on which the waiver would take effect. Acceptable to author. Has an amendment to Amendment.

1:08 Amendment by Darby would would decrease TWC General Revenue Dedicated
authority by $3,443,800 in FY 2010 and $2,405,179 in FY 2011. It would then increase Federal Funds authority in TWC Federal Account No. 5026 by $3,443,800 in FY 2010 and by $2,405,179 in FY 2011.

adopted

109: Amendment by Madden temp w/d’d.

1:09 Amendment by David that would prohibit funds appropriated to TXDoT in the budget from being used to contract with a foreign entity if the term of the contract is longer than 25 years.

Seeing nothing else with the potential for fireworks, we’re signing off.