Bill Text: TX HJR94 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to limiting the permissible uses of money appropriated from the economic stabilization fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR94 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR94-Introduced.html
84R9204 JJT-D | ||
By: Burkett | H.J.R. No. 94 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment relating to limiting the | ||
permissible uses of money appropriated from the economic | ||
stabilization fund. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas | ||
Constitution, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(m) In addition to the appropriation authority provided by | ||
Subsections (k) and (l) of this section, the legislature may, by a | ||
two-thirds vote of the members present in each house, appropriate | ||
amounts from the economic stabilization fund to: | ||
(1) retire state debt; | ||
(2) pay costs associated with a state of disaster | ||
declared by the governor; or | ||
(3) pay nonrecurring costs of infrastructure projects | ||
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SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to limiting | ||
the permissible uses of money appropriated from the economic | ||
stabilization fund." |