Bill Text: TX HJR154 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting certain school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes on the fulfillment of certain conditions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR154-Introduced.html
By: Burns | H.J.R. No. 154 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting certain school | ||
district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes on the | ||
fulfillment of certain conditions. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 3, Article VII, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows: | ||
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
constitution or general law, a school district, other than a junior | ||
college district, may not impose: | ||
(1) a tier one maintenance and operations ad valorem | ||
tax, as defined by general law, or a successor tax for any tax year | ||
after a tax year in which the maximum tier one maintenance and | ||
operations ad valorem tax or successor tax as provided by general | ||
law is zero; or | ||
(2) an ad valorem tax for maintenance and operations | ||
purposes for any tax year that begins after a general law abolishing | ||
school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes takes | ||
effect. | ||
(g) Not later than September 1 of each year, the comptroller | ||
of public accounts shall determine that whether the prohibition | ||
under Subsection (f); | ||
(1) Will not result in a decrease in funding to Texas | ||
public schools; and | ||
(2) if this section takes effect for the following tax | ||
year and notify the Legislature and each school district of the | ||
determination. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting certain | ||
school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes on the | ||
fulfillment of certain conditions." |