Bill Text: TX SJR26 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to allow cities or counties to enter into interlocal contracts with other cities or counties without the imposition of a tax or the provision of a sinking fund.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-05-27 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR26 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SJR26-Enrolled.html
S.J.R. No. 26 |
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature | ||
to allow cities or counties to enter into interlocal contracts with | ||
other cities or counties without the imposition of a tax or the | ||
provision of a sinking fund. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 5, Article XI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 5. (a) Cities having more than five thousand (5000) | ||
inhabitants may, by a majority vote of the qualified voters of said | ||
city, at an election held for that purpose, adopt or amend their | ||
charters. If the number of inhabitants of cities that have adopted | ||
or amended their charters under this section is reduced to five | ||
thousand (5000) or fewer, the cities still may amend their charters | ||
by a majority vote of the qualified voters of said city at an | ||
election held for that purpose. The adoption or amendment of | ||
charters is subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by the | ||
Legislature, and no charter or any ordinance passed under said | ||
charter shall contain any provision inconsistent with the | ||
Constitution of the State, or of the general laws enacted by the | ||
Legislature of this State. Said cities may levy, assess and collect | ||
such taxes as may be authorized by law or by their charters; but no | ||
tax for any purpose shall ever be lawful for any one year, which | ||
shall exceed two and one-half per cent. of the taxable property of | ||
such city, and no debt shall ever be created by any city, unless at | ||
the same time provision be made to assess and collect annually a | ||
sufficient sum to pay the interest thereon and creating a sinking | ||
fund of at least two per cent. thereon, except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b). Furthermore, no city charter shall be altered, | ||
amended or repealed oftener than every two years. | ||
(b) To increase efficiency and effectiveness to the | ||
greatest extent possible, the legislature may by general law | ||
authorize cities to enter into interlocal contracts with other | ||
cities or counties without meeting the assessment and sinking fund | ||
requirements under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 7, Article XI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7. (a) All counties and cities bordering on the coast | ||
of the Gulf of Mexico are hereby authorized upon a vote of the | ||
majority of the qualified voters voting thereon at an election | ||
called for such purpose to levy and collect such tax for | ||
construction of sea walls, breakwaters, or sanitary purposes, as | ||
may now or may hereafter be authorized by law, and may create a debt | ||
for such works and issue bonds in evidence thereof. But no debt for | ||
any purpose shall ever be incurred in any manner by any city or | ||
county unless provision is made, at the time of creating the same, | ||
for levying and collecting a sufficient tax to pay the interest | ||
thereon and provide at least two per cent (2%) as a sinking fund, | ||
except as provided by Subsection (b); and the condemnation of the | ||
right of way for the erection of such works shall be fully provided | ||
for. | ||
(b) To increase efficiency and effectiveness to the | ||
greatest extent possible, the legislature may by general law | ||
authorize cities or counties to enter into interlocal contracts | ||
with other cities or counties without meeting the tax and sinking | ||
fund requirements under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the | ||
legislature to allow cities or counties to enter into interlocal | ||
contracts with other cities or counties without the imposition of a | ||
tax or the provision of a sinking fund." | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 26 was adopted by the Senate | ||
on March 31, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 26 was adopted by the House | ||
on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||