Bill Text: TX HJR31 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-06 - Referred to Public Education [HJR31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HJR31-Introduced.html
| 83R1832 KKA-F | ||
| By: Raymond | H.J.R. No. 31 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization | ||
| or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program. | ||
| 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) In this section, "private school" means a | ||
| nongovernmental educational establishment that exists for the | ||
| general education of elementary or secondary students. | ||
| (b) The legislature may not appropriate money for or | ||
| authorize a voucher program under which state or local public | ||
| revenue is used to pay all or any part of the costs of a student's | ||
| attendance at a private school. | ||
| (c) This section does not prohibit the use of state or local | ||
| public revenue to pay all or any part of the costs of attendance at a | ||
| private school by a student with a disability for the purpose of | ||
| receiving special education services that would otherwise be | ||
| unavailable to the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the | ||
| authorization or funding of a voucher program for elementary or | ||
| secondary education." | ||
