Bill Text: TX HJR29 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program or similar program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Referred to Public Education [HJR29 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR29-Introduced.html
  85S10696 KKA-D
 
  By: Anchia H.J.R. No. 29
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization
  or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program
  or similar program.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 7 to read as follows:
         Sec. 7.  (a) In this section, "private school" means a
  nongovernmental educational establishment that exists for the
  general education of elementary or secondary students.
         (b)  The legislature may not appropriate money for or
  authorize a voucher program, education savings account, tax credit
  scholarship program, or similar program under which state revenue
  is used to pay all or any part of the costs of a student's attendance
  at a private school.
         (c)  This section does not prohibit the use of state revenue
  to pay all or any part of the costs of attendance at a private school
  by a student with a disability if the student is entitled under
  federal law to receive special education services in that manner at
  no cost to the student.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 6, 2018.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the
  authorization or funding of a voucher program or similar program
  under which state revenue is used to pay the costs of a student's
  attendance at a private elementary or secondary school."
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