Bill Text: TX SJR45 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the expenditure of motor vehicle fuel taxes and registration fees for passenger rail and transit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Finance [SJR45 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SJR45-Introduced.html
86R9341 SMT-D | ||
By: Watson | S.J.R. No. 45 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the expenditure of | ||
motor vehicle fuel taxes and registration fees for passenger rail | ||
and transit. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7-a, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7-a. Subject to legislative appropriation, allocation | ||
and direction, all net revenues remaining after payment of all | ||
refunds allowed by law and expenses of collection derived from | ||
motor vehicle registration fees, and all taxes, except gross | ||
production and ad valorem taxes, on motor fuels and lubricants used | ||
to propel motor vehicles over public roadways, shall be used for the | ||
sole purpose of acquiring rights-of-way, constructing, | ||
maintaining, and policing such public roadways, and for the | ||
administration of such laws as may be prescribed by the Legislature | ||
pertaining to the supervision of traffic and safety on such roads; | ||
and for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating | ||
passenger rail and transit; [ |
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one-fourth (1/4) of such net revenue from the motor fuel tax shall | ||
be allocated to the Available School Fund; and, provided, however, | ||
that the net revenue derived by counties from motor vehicle | ||
registration fees shall never be less than the maximum amounts | ||
allowed to be retained by each County and the percentage allowed to | ||
be retained by each County under the laws in effect on January 1, | ||
1945. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as authorizing | ||
the pledging of the State's credit for any purpose. | ||
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 to allow the | ||
expenditure of motor vehicle fuel taxes and registration fees to | ||
construct, maintain, and operate passenger rail and transit." |