By Shields H.B. No. 2664
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to abolishing the school district property tax and
1-3 dedicating all lottery revenue, some sales taxes and certain other
1-4 statewide taxes to education.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. School district property taxes shall be abolished
1-7 and monies from lottery revenue, some sales taxes and certain other
1-8 statewide taxes shall be dedicated to education.
1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.