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By:  Raymond                                                    H.J.R. No. 15 



A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization 
or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                       
	SECTION 1.  Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by 
adding Section 7 to read as follows:
	Sec. 7.  (a)  In this section, "private school" means a 
nongovernmental educational establishment that exists for the 
general education of elementary or secondary students.
	(b)  The legislature may not appropriate money for or 
authorize a voucher program under which state or local public 
revenue is used to pay all or any part of the costs of a student's 
attendance at a private school.
	(c)  This section does not prohibit the use of state or local 
public revenue to pay all or any part of the costs of attendance at a 
private school by a student with a disability for the purpose of 
receiving special education services that would otherwise be 
unavailable to the student.
	SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be 
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2005.  
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the 
proposition:  "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the 
authorization or funding of a voucher program for elementary or 
secondary education."