Bill Text: TX HJR10 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the uses of revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, taxes on motor fuels and lubricants, and certain revenue received from the federal government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-01 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR10 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HJR10-Introduced.html
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| By: Pickett | H.J.R. No. 10 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the uses of revenue | ||
| from motor vehicle registration fees, taxes on motor fuels and | ||
| lubricants, and certain revenue received from the federal | ||
| government. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 7-a, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 7-a. (a) Subject to legislative appropriation, | ||
| allocation and direction, all net revenues remaining after payment | ||
| of all refunds allowed by law and expenses of collection derived | ||
| from motor vehicle registration fees, and all taxes, except gross | ||
| production and ad valorem taxes, on motor fuels and lubricants used | ||
| to propel motor vehicles over public roadways, shall be used for the | ||
| sole purpose of acquiring rights-of-way, constructing, | ||
| maintaining, and policing such public roadways, and for the | ||
| administration of such laws as may be prescribed by the Legislature | ||
| pertaining to the supervision of traffic and safety on such roads; | ||
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| from the motor fuel tax shall be allocated to the Available School | ||
| Fund; and, provided, however, that the net revenue derived by | ||
| counties from motor vehicle registration fees shall never be less | ||
| than the maximum amounts allowed to be retained by each County and | ||
| the percentage allowed to be retained by each County under the laws | ||
| in effect on January 1, 1945. Nothing contained herein shall be | ||
| construed as authorizing the pledging of the State's credit for any | ||
| purpose. | ||
| (b) For a biennium, the Legislature may not appropriate | ||
| funds derived from the revenue described by Subsection (a) of this | ||
| section or Section 7-b of this article for a purpose other than | ||
| acquiring rights-of-way or constructing or maintaining public | ||
| roadways in an amount that exceeds the lesser of: | ||
| (1) the total amount of those funds appropriated for a | ||
| purpose other than acquiring rights-of-way or constructing or | ||
| maintaining public roadways in the preceding biennium; or | ||
| (2) the amount determined under Subsection (c) of this | ||
| section. | ||
| (c) For each biennium, the maximum amount that may be | ||
| appropriated as provided by Subsection (b) of this section is | ||
| reduced by 20 percent from the preceding biennium if the estimate of | ||
| anticipated revenue from all sources made in advance of the regular | ||
| session under Section 49a(a), Article III, of this constitution for | ||
| the biennium exceeds the total amount of revenue from all sources | ||
| for the preceding biennium by more than three times the amount of | ||
| the reduction. | ||
| 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 limiting the uses of | ||
| revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, taxes on motor fuels | ||
| and lubricants, and certain revenue received from the federal | ||
| government." | ||
