Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations of revenue.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-09 - Filed [SJR9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SJR9-Introduced.html
  83S20060 CJC-F
 
  By: Williams S.J.R. No. 9
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on
  the rate of growth of appropriations of revenue.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 22, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 22.  (a)  In no state fiscal biennium shall the rate of
  growth of appropriations from all sources of revenue other than the
  federal government [state tax revenues not dedicated by this
  constitution] exceed a rate equal to the sum of the estimated rates
  [rate of growth] of:
               (1)  change of the state's population during the state
  fiscal biennium for which the appropriations are made; and
               (2)  monetary inflation or deflation in this state
  during the state fiscal biennium for which the appropriations are
  made [economy].
         (b)  If the sum of the estimated rate of change of the state's
  population and the estimated rate of monetary inflation or
  deflation in this state is a negative number, the appropriations
  from all sources of revenue other than the federal government for
  the biennium may not exceed the amount determined by subtracting
  from the estimated amount of appropriations from all sources of
  revenue other than the federal government for the preceding state
  fiscal biennium the product of the additive inverse of that
  negative number and the estimated amount of appropriations from all
  sources of revenue other than the federal government for that
  preceding biennium.
         (c)  The legislature shall provide by general law procedures
  to implement Subsections (a) and (b) of this section [subsection].
         (d) [(b)]  If the legislature by adoption of a resolution
  approved by a record vote of a majority of the members of each house
  finds that an emergency exists and identifies the nature of the
  emergency, the legislature may provide for appropriations in excess
  of the maximum amount authorized by [Subsection (a) of] this
  section. The excess authorized under this subsection may not
  exceed the amount specified in the resolution.
         (e) [(c)]  In no case shall appropriations exceed revenues
  as provided in Article III, Section 49a, of this constitution.
  Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter, amend, or
  repeal Article III, Section 49a, of this constitution.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2014.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment regarding the
  limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations of revenue."
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