By Brady, et al.                                     H.J.R. No. 121
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment providing for supreme court
    1-2  authority regarding funding and operation of public free schools.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article V, of the Texas Constitution is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 3(d) to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 3(d)  Not withstanding the writ power granted to other
    1-7  courts by this constitution, only the Supreme Court may issue an
    1-8  order or decree that the system of public free schools be closed or
    1-9  prohibited from operating, that funds the Legislature has
   1-10  appropriated for the purpose of funding a system of public free
   1-11  schools be diverted or withheld from their dedicated use, or that
   1-12  confiscates or prohibits the distribution of funds in the State
   1-13  Treasury appropriated for the purpose funding a system of Public
   1-14  free schools.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
   1-16  submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 2,
   1-17  1993.  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or
   1-18  against the proposition:  "The constitutional amendment limiting
   1-19  judicial involvement regarding the funding of public schools to the
   1-20  Texas Supreme Court."