Bill Text: TX HJR31 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the power of the legislature to mandate unfunded costs and requirements on a municipality, county, or school district.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 48-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-09 - Corrected committee report sent to Calendars [HJR31 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR31-Comm_Sub.html
  85S12242 JCG-F
 
  By: Shine, Darby, Burns, Ashby, Cook, et al. H.J.R. No. 31
 
  Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 31:
 
  By:  Paddie C.S.H.J.R. No. 31
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the power of the
  legislature to mandate unfunded costs and requirements on a
  municipality, county, or school district.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 68 to read as follows:
         Sec. 68.  A law enacted by the legislature on or after
  January 1, 2018, that requires a municipality, county, or school
  district to establish, expand, or modify a duty or activity that
  requires the expenditure of revenue by the municipality, county, or
  school district is not effective unless the legislature
  appropriates or otherwise provides, from a source other than the
  revenue of the municipality, county, or school district, for the
  payment or reimbursement of the costs incurred for the biennium by
  the municipality, county, or school district in complying with the
  requirement.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.  
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to restrict the power
  of the legislature from mandating unfunded costs and requirements
  on a municipality, county, or school district."
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