Floor Packet Page No. 36
      Amend CSHJR 4 as follows:
      (1)  Insert the following appropriately numbered section to
read as follows and renumber subsequent section accordingly:
      SECTION____.  Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 26 to read as follows:
      Sec.26.  The legislature may not increase the rate of, reduce
the amount of or repeal an exemption from, or expand the tax base
of any state tax so that the annual revenue derived from the
collection of the tax is incresed unless the law increasing the tax
rate, reducing or repealing an exemption, or expanding the tax base
is adopted by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the membership
of each house, or is approved by a majority of the registered
voters voting in a statewide referendum held on the question.
      (2)  On page 12, line 3, strike "elderly, and" and substitute
"elderly, requiring a two-thirds vote of the legislature or
approval by the voters for the future increase of a state tax, and
".