Bill Text: TX SJR22 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred to Finance [SJR22 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SJR22-Introduced.html
87R2696 BDP-F | ||
By: Huffman, Schwertner | S.J.R. No. 22 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state | ||
funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement | ||
system. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 67, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
(c-1) This state is not liable for any debts or other | ||
obligations of a retirement system described by Subsection (c) of | ||
this section. The legislature may not appropriate money to a | ||
retirement system described by Subsection (c) of this section to | ||
pay any debts or other obligations of the retirement system. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the | ||
legislature from appropriating state money to a local public | ||
retirement system to pay any debts or other obligations of the | ||
retirement system." |