Bill Text: TX HB3909 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to ballot language requirements for a proposition seeking voter approval for the issuance of bonds.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services [HB3909 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3909-Introduced.html
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By: Phelan | H.B. No. 3909 |
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relating to ballot language requirements for a proposition seeking | ||
voter approval for the issuance of bonds. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 52.072, Election Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(e) In addition to any other requirement imposed by law for | ||
a proposition, including a provision prescribing the proposition | ||
language, a proposition submitted to the voters for approval of the | ||
issuance of bonds or the imposition, increase, or reduction of a tax | ||
shall specifically state, as applicable: | ||
(1) with respect to a proposition seeking voter | ||
approval of the issuance of bonds: | ||
(A) the total principal amount of the bonds to be | ||
authorized, if approved; [ |
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(B) a plain language [ |
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single specific purpose [ |
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authorized, if approved; and | ||
(C) the rate of any tax that will be increased or | ||
imposed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds; | ||
(2) with respect to a proposition that only seeks | ||
voter approval of the imposition or increase of a tax, the amount of | ||
or maximum tax rate of the tax or tax increase for which approval is | ||
sought; or | ||
(3) with respect to a proposition that only seeks | ||
voter approval of the reduction of a tax, the amount of tax rate | ||
reduction or the tax rate for which approval is sought. | ||
(f) Each single specific purpose for which bonds requiring | ||
voter approval are to be issued must be printed on the ballot as a | ||
separate proposition. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An election ordered before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |