Bill Text: TX HCR1 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Approving the item of appropriation to the Public Integrity Unit made by the General Appropriations Act for the 2014-2015 state fiscal biennium notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-10 - Referred to Appropriations [HCR1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HCR1-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner of Harris | H.C.R. No. 1 | |
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| WHEREAS, Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, | ||
| authorizes the governor to object to an item of appropriation | ||
| contained in certain bills passed by both houses of the legislature | ||
| and presented to the governor for approval; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, further | ||
| authorizes the legislature, if the legislature is in session when | ||
| the governor objects to an item of appropriation, to reconsider the | ||
| item of appropriation and approve the item notwithstanding the | ||
| objections of the governor; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The governor has objected to the item of | ||
| appropriation for the Public Integrity Unit in Travis County made | ||
| by S.B. No. 1, Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 | ||
| (the General Appropriations Act), in Strategy D.1.4 in the | ||
| appropriations to the Judiciary Section, Comptroller's Department; | ||
| now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED by the 83rd Legislature of the State of Texas, 2nd | ||
| Called Session, 2013, That the legislature hereby approves the item | ||
| of appropriation for the Public Integrity Unit in Travis County | ||
| made by S.B. No. 1, and that item of appropriation hereby becomes | ||
| effective notwithstanding the objections of the governor. | ||
