Bill Text: TX SB101 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to excepting certain appropriations from computations regarding the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-03 - Co-author authorized [SB101 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB101-Introduced.html
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By: Hinojosa, Eltife | S.B. No. 101 |
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relating to excepting certain appropriations from computations | ||
regarding the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of | ||
appropriations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 316.001, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 316.001. LIMIT. The rate of growth of appropriations | ||
in a biennium from state tax revenues, other than state tax revenues | ||
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appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest | ||
on state debt, may not exceed the estimated rate of growth of the | ||
state's economy. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 316.002(a) and (e), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Before the Legislative Budget Board submits the budget | ||
as prescribed by Section 322.008(c), the board shall establish: | ||
(1) the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy | ||
from the current biennium to the next biennium; | ||
(2) the level of appropriations for the current | ||
biennium from state tax revenues, other than state tax revenues | ||
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appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest | ||
on state debt; and | ||
(3) the amount of state tax revenues, other than state | ||
tax revenues [ |
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revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or | ||
interest on state debt, that could be appropriated for the next | ||
biennium within the limit established by the estimated rate of | ||
growth of the state's economy. | ||
(e) In the absence of an action by the Legislative Budget | ||
Board to adopt a spending limit as provided in Subsections (a) and | ||
(b), the estimated rate of growth in the state's economy from the | ||
current biennium to the next biennium shall be treated as if it were | ||
zero, and the amount of state tax revenues, other than state tax | ||
revenues [ |
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appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest | ||
on state debt, that could be appropriated within the limit | ||
established by the estimated rate of growth in the state's economy | ||
shall be the same as the level of appropriations for the current | ||
biennium. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 316.006, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 316.006. LIMIT ON BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS. Unless | ||
authorized by majority vote of the members of the board from each | ||
house, the Legislative Budget Board budget recommendations | ||
relating to the proposed appropriations of state tax revenues, | ||
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and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the | ||
principal of or interest on state debt, may not exceed the limit | ||
adopted by the committee under Section 316.005. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 316.007(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Legislative Budget Board shall include in its budget | ||
recommendations the proposed limit of appropriations from state tax | ||
revenues, other than state tax revenues [ |
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constitution and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of | ||
paying the principal of or interest on state debt. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 316.008(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Unless the legislature adopts a resolution under | ||
Section 22(b), Article VIII, [ |
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Constitution, raising the proposed limit on appropriations, the | ||
proposed limit is binding on the legislature with respect to all | ||
appropriations for the next biennium made from state tax revenues, | ||
other than state tax revenues [ |
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and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the | ||
principal of or interest on state debt. | ||
SECTION 6. (a) The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
only in relation to appropriations made for the state fiscal | ||
biennium beginning September 1, 2017, and subsequent state fiscal | ||
bienniums. | ||
(b) Appropriations for the state fiscal biennium that | ||
begins September 1, 2015, are governed by Subchapter A, Chapter | ||
316, Government Code, as that subchapter provided immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect on the effective date of | ||
the constitutional amendment proposed by the 84th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2015, excepting certain appropriations for | ||
reducing state debt from the constitutional limitation on the rate | ||
of growth of appropriations. If that amendment is not approved by | ||
the voters, this Act has no effect. |