Bill Text: TX HJR37 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to legislative authority to permit credit unions and other financial institutions to award prizes by lot to promote savings.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR37 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HJR37-Enrolled.html
| H.J.R. No. 37 | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment relating to legislative | ||
| authority to permit credit unions and other financial institutions | ||
| to award prizes by lot to promote savings. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 47, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (d-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (d-2) Subsection (a) of this section does not prohibit the | ||
| legislature from authorizing credit unions and other financial | ||
| institutions to conduct, under the terms and conditions imposed by | ||
| general law, promotional activities to promote savings in which | ||
| prizes are awarded to one or more of the credit union's or financial | ||
| institution's depositors selected by lot. | ||
| 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 relating to legislative | ||
| authority to permit credit unions and other financial institutions | ||
| to award prizes by lot to promote savings." | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 37 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 37 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| RECEIVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Secretary of State | ||
