Bill Text: TX HB206 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a limit on local government expenditures.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 20)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB206-Introduced.html
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| By: Villalba | H.B. No. 206 | |
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| relating to a limit on local government expenditures. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.012. LIMIT ON ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. (a) In this | ||
| section, "local government" means a municipality or county. | ||
| (b) Unless additional expenditures are authorized by a | ||
| majority of the local government's voters voting at an election | ||
| called for that purpose, a local government's total expenditures | ||
| from all available sources of revenue in a fiscal year may not | ||
| exceed the greater of: | ||
| (1) the amount of total expenditures for the preceding | ||
| fiscal year; or | ||
| (2) an amount determined by multiplying the amount of | ||
| total expenditures from all available sources of revenue in the | ||
| preceding fiscal year by the product of: | ||
| (A) the sum of one and the estimated average rate | ||
| of projected growth of the population that resides in the local | ||
| government's geographic boundaries during the period ending on the | ||
| last day of the fiscal year and beginning the first day of the | ||
| preceding fiscal year; and | ||
| (B) the sum of one and the estimated average rate | ||
| of monetary inflation in this state during the period described by | ||
| Paragraph (A). | ||
| (c) For purposes of determining the amount of total | ||
| expenditures described by Subsection (b): | ||
| (1) a local government shall use, as available, data | ||
| published by the United States Census Bureau as a basis for | ||
| estimating projected population growth; | ||
| (2) not later than May 1 of each year, the comptroller | ||
| of public accounts shall make available on the comptroller's | ||
| Internet website and submit to the secretary of state for | ||
| publication in the Texas Register the rate of monetary inflation in | ||
| this state for the preceding year; and | ||
| (3) as soon as practicable after receipt of the rate | ||
| described by Subdivision (2) from the comptroller, the secretary of | ||
| state shall publish that rate in the Texas Register. | ||
| (d) This section does not apply to a local government that | ||
| does not impose taxes or incur debt. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a fiscal year of a municipality or county that begins on or after | ||
| December 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
