Bill Text: TX HJR132 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for certain revenues otherwise allocated for transfer to the economic stabilization fund to be used for purposes related to public primary and secondary education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR132 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HJR132-Introduced.html

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86R13529 JJT-F
By: Goodwin H.J.R. No. 132

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature
to provide for certain revenues otherwise allocated for transfer to
the economic stabilization fund to be used for purposes related to
public primary and secondary education.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 49-g(c-2), Article III, Texas
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
(c-2) The legislature by general law shall provide for a
procedure by which the allocation of the sum of the amounts
described by Subsections (d) and (e) of this section may be adjusted
to provide for a transfer to the economic stabilization fund of an
amount greater than the allocation provided for under Subsection
(c-1) of this section with the remainder of that sum, if any,
allocated for transfer to the state highway fund. The legislature
by general law may provide for all or any portion of the amount that
is allocated for transfer to the economic stabilization fund under
Subsection (c-1) or this subsection instead to be allocated and
made available for appropriation only for purposes related to
public primary or secondary education. An [The] allocation made as
provided by [that] general law enacted under the authority of this
subsection is binding on the comptroller for the purposes of the
transfers required by Subsection (c) of this section.
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 86th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2019, authorizing the legislature to provide for
certain revenues otherwise allocated for transfer to the economic
stabilization fund to be used for purposes related to public
primary and secondary education.
(b) The amendments to Section 49-g, Article III, of this
constitution take effect January 1, 2020.
(c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2021.
SECTION 3. 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 authorizing the
legislature to provide for certain revenues otherwise allocated for
transfer to the economic stabilization fund to be used for purposes
related to public primary and secondary education."