Bill Text: TX SJR36 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 36 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting a tax on the sale or purchase of water at wholesale.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Referred to Ways & Means [SJR36 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SJR36-Engrossed.html



	By: Perry	S.J.R. No. 36
	(In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2017; February 15, 2017,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water &
	Rural Affairs; April 6, 2017, reported favorably by the following
	vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 6, 2017, sent to printer.)


	SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION


	proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting a tax on the sale
	or purchase of water at wholesale.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
	adding Section 31 to read as follows:
	Sec. 31. A tax may not be imposed on the sale or purchase of
	water at wholesale.
	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, prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the
	sale or purchase of water at wholesale.
	(b) If the 85th Legislature, during the regular or a special
	session, enacts a law imposing or authorizing a tax prohibited by
	Section 31, Article VIII, of this constitution, the portion of the
	law that violates that section expires January 1, 2019.
	(c) This temporary provision expires December 31, 2019.
	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 prohibiting a tax on
	the sale or purchase of water at wholesale."

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