83R2797 SMH-D
 
  By: Ritter H.B. No. 11
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the appropriation of money from the economic
  stabilization fund to finance certain water-related projects.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  (a) If the state water implementation fund for
  Texas is created by legislation enacted by the 83rd Legislature,
  Regular Session, 2013, the amount of $2 billion is appropriated
  from the economic stabilization fund to the comptroller for the
  purpose of depositing that amount to the credit of the state water
  implementation fund for Texas as money available for use by the
  Texas Water Development Board for the purposes of the state water
  implementation fund for Texas.
         (b)  If the state water implementation fund for Texas is not
  created by legislation enacted by the 83rd Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2013, the amount of $2 billion is appropriated from the
  economic stabilization fund to the comptroller for the purpose of
  depositing that amount to the credit of the Texas Water Development
  Fund II as money available for use by the Texas Water Development
  Board for the purposes of the Texas Water Development Fund II.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013, but only
  if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each
  house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article
  III, Texas Constitution.