Bill Text: TX SJR26 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 26 (Prior Session Legislation)

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.

Sponsorship: 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	amended or repealed oftener than every two years.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