Bill Text: TX HJR170 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the state school safety fund to provide financial support for projects that enhance the safety of public schools in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-02 - Referred to Education [HJR170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR170-Engrossed.html
| 88R21716 JES-F | ||
| By: King of Hemphill | H.J.R. No. 170 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment creating the state school | ||
| safety fund to provide financial support for projects that enhance | ||
| the safety of public schools in this state. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 7 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 7. (a) The state school safety fund is created as a | ||
| special fund in the state treasury outside the general revenue | ||
| fund. Money in the state school safety fund shall be administered, | ||
| without further appropriation, by the Texas Permanent School Fund | ||
| Corporation or that corporation's successor in function. In | ||
| accordance with general law, the state school safety fund may be | ||
| used only to support projects to enhance the safety of public | ||
| schools in this state, including projects to ensure public schools | ||
| meet school safety standards established by the Texas Education | ||
| Agency or that agency's successor in function. Separate accounts | ||
| may be established in the state school safety fund as necessary or | ||
| convenient to administer the fund or the supported projects. | ||
| (b) The legislature by general law may authorize the Texas | ||
| Permanent School Fund Corporation or that corporation's successor | ||
| in function to provide money from the state school safety fund to | ||
| the Texas Education Agency or that agency's successor in function | ||
| for purposes of providing financial assistance, including by direct | ||
| grant to an independent school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
| school, for projects described under Subsection (a) of this | ||
| section. | ||
| (c) The state school safety fund consists of: | ||
| (1) money appropriated to the fund; | ||
| (2) money transferred or deposited to the credit of | ||
| the fund by general law, including money from any source | ||
| transferred or deposited to the credit of the fund at the discretion | ||
| of the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation or the Texas | ||
| Education Agency or that corporation's or agency's successor in | ||
| function as authorized by general law; | ||
| (3) revenue from any source that the legislature by | ||
| statute dedicates for deposit to the credit of the fund; | ||
| (4) investment earnings and interest earned on amounts | ||
| credited to the fund; | ||
| (5) money appropriated by the legislature for the | ||
| purposes of funding public schools that is determined by the | ||
| commissioner of education to exceed the amount required for the | ||
| support and maintenance of public schools, including amounts to | ||
| which the public schools of this state are entitled under general | ||
| law; and | ||
| (6) money transferred to the fund from another fund or | ||
| account to which money from the fund was transferred, as authorized | ||
| by general law. | ||
| (d) The legislature by general law shall provide for the | ||
| manner in which money in the state school safety fund may be used, | ||
| subject to the limitations provided by this section. The | ||
| legislature by general law may provide for costs of investment and | ||
| administration of the state school safety fund to be paid from the | ||
| fund. | ||
| (e) For the purposes of Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
| constitution, an appropriation of money from the economic | ||
| stabilization fund for the purpose of depositing that money to the | ||
| credit of the state school safety fund is considered to be an | ||
| appropriation of state tax revenues dedicated by this constitution. | ||
| (f) This section is intended to establish a basic framework | ||
| of the state school safety fund, and the legislature by general law | ||
| may provide for the implementation and effectuate the design and | ||
| objects of this section and may delegate duties, responsibilities, | ||
| functions, and authority to the Texas Permanent School Fund | ||
| Corporation or the Texas Education Agency or that corporation's or | ||
| agency's successor in function for those purposes. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment creating the state | ||
| school safety fund to provide financial support for projects that | ||
| enhance the safety of public schools in this state." | ||
