Enrolled Bill Summary

House Joint Resolution 75 proposes a state constitutional amendment to eliminate various obsolete, archaic, redundant, and unnecessary constitutional provisions and to clarify, update, and reorganize provisions. The proposed amendment also repeals provisions relating to asylum lands and an associated permanent fund. Transitional language requires that land and other property in the fund be sold by the General Land Office and the proceeds placed in general revenue to be appropriated for education, and that money in the fund be transferred in equal shares to the Texas School for the Deaf and the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.