By: West S.J.R. No. 50
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the issuance of
  general obligation bonds to finance educational loans to students
  and for authority to enter into bond enhancement agreements with
  respect to general obligation bonds issued for that purpose.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Sections 50b-7 to read as follows:
         Sec. 50b-7.  ADDITIONAL STUDENT LOANS.  (a)  The legislature
  by general law may authorize the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board or its successor or successors to issue and sell
  general obligation bonds of the State of Texas for the purpose of
  financing educational loans to students in the manner provided by
  law in a principal amount of outstanding bonds that must at all
  times be equal to or less than the aggregate principal amount of
  state general obligation bonds previously authorized for those
  purposes by any other provision or former provision of this
  constitution authorizing similar bonds.
         (b)  The bonds shall be executed in the form, on the terms,
  and in the denominations, bear interest, and be issued in
  installments as prescribed by the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board or its successor or successors.
         (c)  The maximum net effective interest rate to be borne by
  bonds issued under this section may not exceed the maximum rate
  provided by law.
         (d)  The legislature may provide for the investment of bond
  proceeds and may establish and provide for the investment of an
  interest and sinking fund to pay the bonds.  Income from the
  investment shall be used for the purposes prescribed by the
  legislature.
         (e)  While any of the bonds issued under this section or
  interest on the bonds is outstanding and unpaid, there is
  appropriated out of the first money coming into the treasury in each
  fiscal year, not otherwise appropriated by this constitution, the
  amount sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds
  that mature or become due during the fiscal year, less any amount
  remaining in an interest and sinking fund established under this
  section at the end of the preceding fiscal year that is pledged to
  the payment of the bonds or interest.
         (f)  Bonds issued under this section, after approval by the
  attorney general, registration by the comptroller of public
  accounts, and delivery to the purchasers, are incontestable.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held on the earlier of
  the first date on which another election on a constitutional
  amendment proposed by the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011,
  is held or November 8, 2011. The ballot shall be printed to permit
  voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional
  amendment providing for the issuance of general obligation bonds of
  the State of Texas for the purpose of financing educational loans to
  students."