Bill Text: TX HJR60 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on the rate of growth of state appropriations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-26 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR60 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR60-Introduced.html
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By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.J.R. No. 60 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on | ||
the rate of growth of state appropriations. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 22. (a) In no state fiscal biennium shall the rate of | ||
growth of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by | ||
this constitution exceed a rate equal to the sum of the estimated | ||
rates [ |
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(1) change of the state's population during the state | ||
fiscal biennium preceding the state fiscal biennium for which the | ||
appropriations are made; and | ||
(2) monetary inflation or deflation in this state | ||
during the state fiscal biennium preceding the biennium for which | ||
the appropriations are made [ |
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(b) If the sum of the estimated rate of change of the state's | ||
population and the estimated rate of monetary inflation or | ||
deflation in this state during that preceding state fiscal biennium | ||
is a negative number, the appropriations from state tax revenues | ||
not dedicated by this constitution for the biennium may not exceed | ||
the amount determined by subtracting from the estimated amount of | ||
appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by this | ||
constitution for that preceding biennium the product of the | ||
additive inverse of that negative number and the estimated amount | ||
of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by this | ||
constitution for that preceding biennium. | ||
(c) The legislature shall provide by general law procedures | ||
to implement Subsections (a) and (b) of this section [ |
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approved by a record vote of a majority of the members of each house | ||
finds that an emergency exists and identifies the nature of the | ||
emergency, the legislature may provide for appropriations in excess | ||
of the maximum amount authorized by [ |
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section. The excess authorized under this subsection may not | ||
exceed the amount specified in the resolution. | ||
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as provided in Article III, Section 49a, of this constitution. | ||
Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter, amend, or | ||
repeal Article III, Section 49a, of this constitution. | ||
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
to the amendments to Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
constitution, proposed by the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2015, concerning the limitation on the rate of growth of | ||
appropriations. This temporary provision expires December 1, 2017. | ||
(b) The changes made to Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
constitution, as made by the amendments, apply only in relation to | ||
appropriations made for the state fiscal biennium beginning | ||
September 1, 2017, and subsequent state fiscal bienniums. | ||
Appropriations for the state fiscal biennium that began September | ||
1, 2015, are governed by Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
constitution as that section provided immediately before the | ||
amendment was approved by the voters. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment concerning the | ||
limitation on the rate of growth in state appropriations." |