By: Ratliff S.J.R. No. 7 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 1-1 proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize ad valorem 1-2 taxation by county education districts. 1-3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article VII of the Texas Constitution is amended 1-5 by adding Section 3-c to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 3-c. The legislature may create county education 1-7 districts with the taxable property of existing school districts in 1-8 one or more counties combined. A county education district may 1-9 levy, collect, and distribute ad valorem taxes as authorized by 1-10 general law. The legislature may set the rate of the tax to be 1-11 imposed in a county education district or may authorize the board 1-12 of trustees of each county education district to set the rate. 1-13 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be 1-14 submitted to the voters at an election to be held May 1, 1993. The 1-15 ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the 1-16 proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing county 1-17 education districts to levy, collect, and distribute revenue from a 1-18 property tax."