Bill Text: TX SB18 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a limit on local government expenditures.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-14 - Postponed [SB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB18-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Estes, et al. | S.B. No. 18 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed July 18, 2017; July 20, 2017, read | ||
| first time and referred to Select Committee on Government Reform; | ||
| July 23, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, | ||
| Nays 2; July 23, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to a limit on local government expenditures. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.012. LIMIT ON ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. (a) In this | ||
| section, "local government" means a municipality or county. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a local | ||
| government's total expenditures from all available sources of | ||
| revenue in a fiscal year may not exceed the greater of: | ||
| (1) the local government's total expenditures from all | ||
| available sources of revenue in the preceding fiscal year; or | ||
| (2) an amount determined by multiplying: | ||
| (A) the local government's total expenditures | ||
| from all available sources of revenue in the preceding fiscal year; | ||
| and | ||
| (B) the sum of one and the rate most recently | ||
| published by the Legislative Budget Board under Subsection (c). | ||
| (c) Not later than January 31 of each year, the staff of the | ||
| Legislative Budget Board shall publish a rate equal to the product | ||
| of: | ||
| (1) the rate of growth of this state's population | ||
| during the preceding calendar year, using the most recent estimates | ||
| published by the United States Census Bureau; and | ||
| (2) the rate of monetary inflation in this state | ||
| during the preceding calendar year, using the effective consumer | ||
| price index for all items for this state as determined by the | ||
| Legislative Budget Board based on information published by the | ||
| Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of | ||
| Labor. | ||
| (d) A local government's total expenditures from all | ||
| available sources of local revenue in a fiscal year may exceed the | ||
| amount described by Subsection (b) if: | ||
| (1) the local government's voters approve the | ||
| additional expenditures for that fiscal year at an election called | ||
| for that purpose and held on a uniform election date; or | ||
| (2) the governor declares or renews a declaration of a | ||
| state of disaster under Section 418.014, Government Code, in that | ||
| fiscal year, and the governor's designation of the area threatened | ||
| includes all or part of the geographic territory of the local | ||
| government. | ||
| (e) Revenue received from the issuance of bonds approved by | ||
| the voters or from a grant, donation, or gift is not considered an | ||
| available source of revenue for the purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 140.012, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a fiscal year of a municipality or | ||
| county that begins on or after December 1, 2017. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
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