Bill Text: TX SJR74 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the centennial parks conservation fund.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR74 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR74-Enrolled.html
| S.J.R. No. 74 | ||
| proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of | ||
| the centennial parks conservation fund. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 49-e-1 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 49-e-1. (a) The centennial parks conservation fund is | ||
| established as a trust fund outside the treasury. In accordance | ||
| with general law, the fund may be used only for the creation and | ||
| improvement of state parks. | ||
| (b) The centennial parks conservation fund consists of: | ||
| (1) money appropriated, credited, or transferred to | ||
| the fund by the legislature; | ||
| (2) gifts, grants, and donations received by the Parks | ||
| and Wildlife Department or the department's successor in function | ||
| for a purpose for which money in the fund may be used under this | ||
| section; and | ||
| (3) investment earnings and interest earned on amounts | ||
| credited to the fund. | ||
| (c) The legislature may appropriate money from the | ||
| centennial parks conservation fund to the Parks and Wildlife | ||
| Department or the department's successor in function for the | ||
| purposes prescribed for the fund by this section and general law. | ||
| (d) For purposes of Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
| constitution: | ||
| (1) money in the centennial parks conservation fund is | ||
| dedicated by this constitution; and | ||
| (2) an appropriation of state tax revenues for the | ||
| purpose of depositing money to the credit of the fund is treated as | ||
| if it were an appropriation of revenues dedicated by this | ||
| constitution. | ||
| (e) The reasonable expenses of managing the fund and its | ||
| assets shall be paid from the fund. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing for the | ||
| creation of the centennial parks conservation fund to be used for | ||
| the creation and improvement of state parks." | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 74 was adopted by the Senate | ||
| on April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 3; and | ||
| that the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 21, 2023, by | ||
| the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 74 was adopted by the House, | ||
| with amendments, on May 15, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 123, | ||
| Nays 21, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Received: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of State | ||
