Bill Text: TX HJR106 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment excepting certain appropriations for reducing state debt from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR106 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR106-Introduced.html
84R364 JJT-D | ||
By: Keffer | H.J.R. No. 106 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment excepting certain | ||
appropriations for reducing state debt from the constitutional | ||
limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 22(a), Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In no biennium shall the rate of growth of | ||
appropriations from state tax revenues, other than state tax | ||
revenues [ |
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revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or | ||
interest on state debt, exceed the estimated rate of growth of the | ||
state's economy. The legislature shall provide by general law | ||
procedures to implement this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
to the amendment to Section 22(a), Article VIII, of this | ||
constitution as proposed by the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2015, excepting certain appropriations for reducing state debt from | ||
the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of | ||
appropriations. This temporary provision expires December 1, 2017. | ||
(b) The change made to Section 22(a), Article VIII, of this | ||
constitution by the amendment applies 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, as that section | ||
provided immediately before the voters approved the amendment. | ||
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 provide for voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment excepting certain | ||
appropriations for reducing state debt from the constitutional | ||
limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations." |