Bill Text: TX SB7 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations of revenue.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-27 - Filed [SB7 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB7-Introduced.html
By: Williams, Nichols | S.B. No. 7 |
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relating to the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of | ||
appropriations of revenue. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 316.001 and 316.002, Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 316.001. LIMIT. (a) The rate of growth of | ||
appropriations in a state fiscal biennium from all sources of | ||
revenue other than the federal government [ |
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adding the estimated rate of the increase or decrease in the state's | ||
population during the next state fiscal biennium and the estimated | ||
rate of monetary inflation or deflation in this state during that | ||
next biennium [ |
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(b) If the sum of the estimated rates described by | ||
Subsection (a) is a negative number, the amount of appropriations | ||
authorized for the next state fiscal biennium from all sources of | ||
revenue other than the federal government must decrease as | ||
prescribed by this subchapter. | ||
Sec. 316.002. DUTIES OF LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD. | ||
(a) Before the Legislative Budget Board submits the budget for the | ||
next state fiscal biennium as prescribed by Section 322.008(c), the | ||
board shall establish: | ||
(1) the maximum allowable rate of growth of | ||
appropriations from all sources of revenue other than the federal | ||
government between the current state fiscal biennium and the next | ||
state fiscal biennium, in accordance with Section 22, Article VIII, | ||
Texas Constitution, expressed as a percentage, by adding the | ||
following estimated rates, as determined by the board: | ||
(A) the estimated rate of change of the state's | ||
population during the next state fiscal biennium, expressed as a | ||
percentage; and | ||
(B) the estimated rate of monetary inflation or | ||
deflation in this state during the next state fiscal [ |
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(2) the estimated amount [ |
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the current state fiscal biennium from all sources of revenue other | ||
than the federal government [ |
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(3) the amount of [ |
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sources of revenue other than the federal government [ |
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fiscal biennium within the limit established in accordance with the | ||
maximum allowable rate of growth determined under Subdivision (1) | ||
and the estimated amount of appropriations for the current state | ||
fiscal biennium determined under Subdivision (2) [ |
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(b) If the sum of the estimated rate of increase or decrease | ||
in the state's population and the estimated rate of monetary | ||
inflation or deflation in this state is a negative number, the | ||
amount of appropriations authorized for the next state fiscal | ||
biennium from all sources of revenue other than the federal | ||
government may not exceed the amount of appropriations from those | ||
sources of revenue in the current state fiscal biennium reduced by | ||
the product of that amount and the additive inverse of the sum of | ||
those rates. [ |
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Board may not transmit in any form to the governor or the | ||
legislature the budget as prescribed by Section 322.008(c) or the | ||
general appropriations bill as prescribed by Section 322.008(d) | ||
until the limit on the rate of growth of appropriations has been | ||
adopted as required by this subchapter. | ||
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Budget Board to adopt a spending limit as provided by this section | ||
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population growth and the estimated rate of inflation [ |
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shall be treated as if that rate [ |
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revenue from all sources of revenue other than the federal | ||
government [ |
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that could be appropriated for the next state fiscal biennium is | ||
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appropriations from those sources of revenue for the current | ||
biennium. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 revenue from all sources | ||
of revenue other than the federal government [ |
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by the committee under Section 316.005. | ||
SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 316.007, Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Legislative Budget Board shall include in its budget | ||
recommendations the proposed limit of appropriations of revenue | ||
from all sources of revenue other than the federal government [ |
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SECTION 4. Subsection (a), Section 316.008, Government | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Unless the legislature adopts a resolution under | ||
Section 22, 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 state fiscal biennium made from all | ||
sources of revenue other than the federal government [ |
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SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply only, | ||
as applicable, in relation to appropriations made for the state | ||
fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2015, and subsequent state | ||
fiscal bienniums. Appropriations for the state fiscal biennium | ||
that begins September 1, 2013, are governed by Sections 316.001, | ||
316.002, and 316.008, Government Code, as those sections existed on | ||
January 1, 2013, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect on the date on which the | ||
constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature, 1st | ||
Called Session, 2013, concerning the limitation on the rate of | ||
growth of appropriations of revenue takes effect. If that | ||
amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. |