Bill Text: TX SJR27 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SJR27 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SJR27-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffman | S.J.R. No. 27 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 10, 2019; February 14, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 3, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 2; April 3, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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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 5, 2019. | ||
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." | ||
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