Bill Text: TX HJR16 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for revenue from motor fuel taxes to be used solely for policing, maintaining, constructing, and acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways and to provide for the transfer of certain general revenue to the available school fund and the economic stabilization fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-17 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR16 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HJR16-Introduced.html
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By: Pickett | H.J.R. No. 16 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for revenue from | ||
motor fuel taxes to be used solely for policing, maintaining, | ||
constructing, and acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways and | ||
to provide for the transfer of certain general revenue to the | ||
available school fund and the economic stabilization fund. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 49-g(c), (d), and (e), Article III, | ||
Texas Constitution, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) Not later than the 90th day of each fiscal year, the | ||
comptroller of public accounts shall transfer from general revenue | ||
to the economic stabilization fund and to the available school fund | ||
the amounts prescribed by Subsections (d) and (e) of this section. | ||
However, if necessary, the comptroller shall reduce | ||
proportionately the amounts transferred to the economic | ||
stabilization fund to prevent the amount in the fund from exceeding | ||
the limit in effect for that biennium under Subsection (g) of this | ||
section. | ||
(d) If in the preceding year the state received from oil | ||
production taxes a net amount greater than the net amount of oil | ||
production taxes received by the state in the fiscal year ending | ||
August 31, 1987, the comptroller shall retain [ |
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the difference between those amounts as general revenue. Of the | ||
remaining 75 percent of the difference between those amounts, the | ||
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the economic stabilization fund and transfer an amount equal to | ||
one-half to the available school fund [ |
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amount of oil production taxes received, the comptroller may not | ||
consider refunds paid as a result of oil overcharge litigation. | ||
(e) If in the preceding year the state received from gas | ||
production taxes a net amount greater than the net amount of gas | ||
production taxes received by the state in the fiscal year ending | ||
August 31, 1987, the comptroller shall retain [ |
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the difference between those amounts as general revenue. Of the | ||
remaining 75 percent of the difference between those amounts, the | ||
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the economic stabilization fund and transfer an amount equal to | ||
one-half to the available school fund [ |
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this subsection, the comptroller shall adjust the [ |
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of revenues to reflect only 12 months of collection. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 7-a, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7-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 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. | ||
SECTION 3. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies to | ||
the constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature, 1st | ||
Called Session, 2013, to provide for revenue from motor fuel taxes | ||
to be used solely for policing, maintaining, constructing, and | ||
acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways and to provide for the | ||
transfer of certain general revenue to the available school fund | ||
and the economic stabilization fund. | ||
(b) The amendment to Section 49-g, Article III, of this | ||
constitution takes effect January 1, 2014, and applies only to a | ||
transfer of revenue made by the comptroller of public accounts as | ||
provided by Subsection (d) or (e) of that section on or after | ||
January 1, 2014. | ||
(c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2015. | ||
SECTION 4. 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 to provide for revenue | ||
from motor fuel taxes to be used solely for policing, maintaining, | ||
constructing, and acquiring rights-of-way for public roadways and | ||
to provide for the transfer of certain general revenue to the | ||
available school fund and the economic stabilization fund." |