Bill Text: TX HJR41 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to require the comptroller of public accounts to make a state revenue report after the first year of a state fiscal biennium and the governor to call a special session of the legislature if actual state revenue for that fiscal year was at least five percent more or five percent less than projected state revenue.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-07 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR41 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HJR41-Introduced.html

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83R292 TJB-D
By: Larson H.J.R. No. 41

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment to require the comptroller of
public accounts to make a state revenue report after the first year
of a state fiscal biennium and the governor to call a special
session of the legislature if actual state revenue for that fiscal
year was at least five percent more or five percent less than
projected state revenue.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 49a(a), Article III, Texas Constitution,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) It shall be the duty of the Comptroller of Public
Accounts in advance of each Regular Session of the Legislature to
prepare and submit to the Governor and to the Legislature upon its
convening a statement under oath showing fully the financial
condition of the State Treasury at the close of the last fiscal
period and an estimate of the probable receipts and disbursements
for the then current fiscal year. There shall also be contained in
said statement an itemized estimate of the anticipated revenue
based on the laws then in effect that will be received by and for the
State from all sources showing the fund accounts to be credited
during each fiscal year of the succeeding biennium and said
statement shall contain such other information as may be required
by law. Supplemental statements shall be submitted at any Special
Session of the Legislature, and at such other times as may be
necessary to show probable changes. Not later than September 10 of
each even-numbered year, the Comptroller shall prepare and submit
to the Governor and the Legislature a statement under oath showing
fully the condition of the State Treasury, including actual revenue
received by and for the State from all sources, during the first
year of the current fiscal biennium.
SECTION 2. Section 8, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The Governor shall immediately convene the Legislature
in special session if, according to the comptroller's statement
prepared immediately after the end of the first year of the current
fiscal biennium under Section 49a, Article III, of this
constitution, actual revenue received by and for the state from all
sources during that year was at least five percent more or five
percent less than the revenue that was anticipated by the
comptroller to be received for that fiscal year according to the
last statement submitted to the Governor and Legislature before the
beginning of that fiscal year under Section 49a, Article III. The
Legislature may consider any state fiscal matter, including
appropriations or taxation, at that special session, and any other
matter designated by proclamation of the Governor. A special
session convened under this subsection may not last longer than 14
days.
SECTION 3. 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 provide for voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the
comptroller of public accounts to make state revenue projections
after the first fiscal year of a state biennium and the governor to
call a special session of the legislature if actual state revenue
for that fiscal year was at least five percent more or five percent
less than projected state revenue."