1-1  By:  Luna                                             S.J.R. No. 52
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed May 4, 1993; May 5, 1993, read first
    1-3  time and referred to Committee on Education; May 12, 1993, reported
    1-4  adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Ratliff            x                               
    1-9        Haley                                          x   
   1-10        Barrientos         x                               
   1-11        Bivins                                         x   
   1-12        Harris of Tarrant                              x   
   1-13        Luna               x                               
   1-14        Montford                                       x   
   1-15        Shapiro                                        x   
   1-16        Sibley             x                               
   1-17        Turner             x                               
   1-18        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-19  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 52                    By:  Luna
   1-20                        SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
   1-21  proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the use of the
   1-22  available school fund.
   1-23        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Article VII, Section 5(a), of the Texas
   1-25  Constitution is amended to read as follows:
   1-26        (a)  The principal of all bonds and other funds, and the
   1-27  principal arising from the sale of the lands hereinbefore set apart
   1-28  to said school fund, shall be the permanent school fund, and all
   1-29  the interest derivable therefrom and the taxes herein authorized
   1-30  and levied shall be the available school fund.  The available
   1-31  school fund shall be applied annually to the support of the public
   1-32  <free> schools.  Except as provided by this section, no law shall
   1-33  ever be enacted appropriating any part of the permanent or
   1-34  available school fund to any other purpose whatever; nor shall the
   1-35  same, or any part thereof ever be appropriated to or used for the
   1-36  support of any sectarian school; and the available school fund
   1-37  herein provided shall be used for the benefit of the public schools
   1-38  <distributed to the several counties according to their scholastic
   1-39  population and applied> in such manner as may be provided by law.
   1-40        SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
   1-41  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 1993.
   1-42  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against
   1-43  the proposition:  "The constitutional amendment authorizing the use
   1-44  of the available school fund for the benefit of the public schools
   1-45  as provided by law."
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   1-47                                                         Austin,
   1-48  Texas
   1-49                                                         May 12, 1993
   1-50  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-51  President of the Senate
   1-52  Sir:
   1-53  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.J.R. No.
   1-54  52, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-55  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
   1-56  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
   1-57  pass and be printed.
   1-58                                                         Ratliff,
   1-59  Chairman
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   1-61                               WITNESSES
   1-62  No witnesses appeared on S.J.R. No. 52.