By: Parker S.J.R. No. 53
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
1-1 proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the equitable
1-2 distribution of the available school fund.
1-3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article VII, Section 5(a), of the Texas
1-5 Constitution is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The principal of all bonds and other funds, and the
1-7 principal arising from the sale of the lands hereinbefore set apart
1-8 to said school fund, shall be the permanent school fund, and all
1-9 the interest derivable therefrom and the taxes herein authorized
1-10 and levied shall be the available school fund. The available
1-11 school fund shall be applied annually to the support of the public
1-12 free schools. Except as provided by this section, no law shall
1-13 ever be enacted appropriating any part of the permanent or
1-14 available school fund to any other purpose whatever; nor shall the
1-15 same, or any part thereof ever be appropriated to or used for the
1-16 support of any sectarian school; and the available school fund
1-17 herein provided shall be distributed equitably for the benefit of
1-18 the public free schools <to the several counties according to
1-19 their scholastic population and applied> in such manner as may be
1-20 provided by law.
1-21 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
1-22 submitted to the voters at an election to be held on November 2,
1-23 1993. The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or
2-1 against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing
2-2 the equitable distribution of the available school fund for the
2-3 benefit of the public free schools as provided by law."