Bill Text: TX HJR154 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the centennial parks conservation fund to be administered by the Parks and Wildlife Department.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-20 - Left pending in committee [HJR154 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR154-Introduced.html
88R15332 BEE-D | ||
By: King of Hemphill | H.J.R. No. 154 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of | ||
the centennial parks conservation fund to be administered by the | ||
Parks and Wildlife Department. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 49-e-1 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 49-e-1. (a) The centennial parks conservation fund is | ||
created as a special fund in the state treasury outside the general | ||
revenue fund. Money in the centennial parks conservation fund | ||
shall be administered, without further appropriation, by the Parks | ||
and Wildlife Department or the department's successor in function. | ||
In accordance with general law, the centennial parks conservation | ||
fund may be used only for the creation and improvement of state and | ||
local parks and the conservation of land, water, and soil in this | ||
state. Separate accounts may be established in the centennial | ||
parks conservation fund as necessary or convenient to administer | ||
the fund or the supported projects. | ||
(b) The legislature by general law may authorize the Parks | ||
and Wildlife Department or the department's successor in function | ||
to use the centennial parks conservation fund to provide financial | ||
assistance to support projects for public purposes consistent with | ||
this section through grants administered by the department or the | ||
department's successor in function. The financial assistance | ||
authorized by this subsection may be provided directly to public or | ||
private entities as provided by general law. | ||
(c) In accordance with general law, the Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department or the department's successor in function may, at that | ||
entity's discretion, transfer money from the centennial parks | ||
conservation fund to other programs and funds of the department or | ||
the department's successor in function. | ||
(d) The centennial parks conservation fund consists of: | ||
(1) money appropriated to the fund; | ||
(2) money transferred or deposited to the credit of | ||
the fund by general law; | ||
(3) investment earnings and interest earned on amounts | ||
credited to the fund; and | ||
(4) gifts, grants, and donations received for the | ||
fund. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing for the | ||
creation of the centennial parks conservation fund to be | ||
administered by the Parks and Wildlife Department and used for the | ||
creation and improvement of state and local parks and the | ||
conservation of land, water, and soil in this state." |