Bill Text: TX HJR36 | 2023-2024 | 88th 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) 2023-02-28 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR36 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR36-Introduced.html
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By: Burns | H.J.R. No. 36 |
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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), (g), and (h) to read as follows: | ||
(f) Subject to Subsection (g) of this section and | ||
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) Subsection (f) of this section does not take effect for | ||
a tax year described by that subsection if the comptroller | ||
determines that the prohibition under that subsection would result | ||
in a decrease in funding for school districts for that tax year or a | ||
subsequent tax year. | ||
(h) Not later than September 1 of each year, the comptroller | ||
of public accounts shall determine whether the prohibition under | ||
Subsection (f) of 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 7, 2023. | ||
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." |