Bill Text: TX HJR33 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the taxation of the sale or use of certain food, drinks, medicine, and child-care services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-06 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HJR33-Introduced.html
83R1836 CJC-F | ||
By: Raymond | H.J.R. No. 33 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the taxation of | ||
the sale or use of certain food, drinks, medicine, and child-care | ||
services. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 28 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28. The legislature may not enact a general law that | ||
would impose a state tax on the sale or use of: | ||
(1) food or a drink that was not subject to taxation | ||
under Chapter 151, Tax Code, on January 1, 2013; | ||
(2) a medicine that was not subject to taxation under | ||
Chapter 151, Tax Code, on January 1, 2013; or | ||
(3) a child-care service that was not subject to | ||
taxation under Chapter 151, Tax Code, on January 1, 2013. | ||
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 83rd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2013, prohibiting the taxation of the sale or use | ||
of certain food, drinks, medicine, and child-care services, and | ||
expires December 31, 2015. | ||
(b) If the 83rd Legislature, during the regular or a special | ||
session, enacts a general law prohibited by Section 28, Article | ||
VIII, of this constitution, the portion of the general law that | ||
violates that section expires January 1, 2015. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the | ||
taxation of the sale or use of certain food, drinks, medicine, and | ||
child-care services." |