Bill Text: TX SJR21 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 21 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state salary or per diem during certain periods unless the legislature has passed the state's budget and that budget is certified by the comptroller.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR21 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SJR21-Introduced.html

	85R972 TJB-D

	By: Taylor of Collin	S.J.R. No. 21



	A JOINT RESOLUTION
	proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the
	legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state
	salary or per diem during certain periods unless the legislature
	has passed the state's budget and that budget is certified by the
	comptroller.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 24, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
	amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) This subsection applies only if the Comptroller of
	Public Accounts has not certified, as provided by Section 49a(b) of
	this article, before the 31st day after the last day of a Regular
	Session of the Legislature, a general appropriations act that
	constitutes this State's budget for the succeeding State fiscal
	biennium. Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (c) of this section
	and Section 17(b), Article IV, of this constitution, a Member of the
	Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor while acting as President
	of the Senate are not entitled to receive any salary or per diem to
	which those Officers would otherwise be entitled for the period
	beginning on the 31st day after the last day of a Regular Session of
	the Legislature and ending at the end of the day preceding the day
	the Comptroller certifies a general appropriations act that
	constitutes this State's budget for that succeeding State fiscal
	biennium.
	SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to
	the Texas Constitution:
	TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies
	to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th Legislature,
	Regular Session, 2017, to provide that members of the legislature
	and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state salary or per
	diem during certain periods unless the legislature has passed the
	state's budget and that budget is certified by the comptroller.
	(b) Section 24(d), Article III, of this constitution
	applies only in relation to the certification of a general
	appropriations act that constitutes this state's budget for a state
	fiscal biennium beginning on or after September 1, 2019.
	(c) This temporary provision expires September 1, 2020.
	SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
	submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
	The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
	proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that members
	of the legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a
	state salary or per diem during certain periods unless the
	legislature has passed the state's budget and that budget is
	certified by the comptroller."