83R292 TJB-D
 
  By: Larson H.J.R. No. 41
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment to require the comptroller of
  public accounts to make a state revenue report after the first year
  of a state fiscal biennium and the governor to call a special
  session of the legislature if actual state revenue for that fiscal
  year was at least five percent more or five percent less than
  projected state revenue.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 49a(a), Article III, Texas Constitution,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  It shall be the duty of the Comptroller of Public
  Accounts in advance of each Regular Session of the Legislature to
  prepare and submit to the Governor and to the Legislature upon its
  convening a statement under oath showing fully the financial
  condition of the State Treasury at the close of the last fiscal
  period and an estimate of the probable receipts and disbursements
  for the then current fiscal year. There shall also be contained in
  said statement an itemized estimate of the anticipated revenue
  based on the laws then in effect that will be received by and for the
  State from all sources showing the fund accounts to be credited
  during each fiscal year of the succeeding biennium and said
  statement shall contain such other information as may be required
  by law. Supplemental statements shall be submitted at any Special
  Session of the Legislature, and at such other times as may be
  necessary to show probable changes.  Not later than September 10 of
  each even-numbered year, the Comptroller shall prepare and submit
  to the Governor and the Legislature a statement under oath showing
  fully the condition of the State Treasury, including actual revenue
  received by and for the State from all sources, during the first
  year of the current fiscal biennium.
         SECTION 2.  Section 8, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is
  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  The Governor shall immediately convene the Legislature
  in special session if, according to the comptroller's statement
  prepared immediately after the end of the first year of the current
  fiscal biennium under Section 49a, Article III, of this
  constitution, actual revenue received by and for the state from all
  sources during that year was at least five percent more or five
  percent less than the revenue that was anticipated by the
  comptroller to be received for that fiscal year according to the
  last statement submitted to the Governor and Legislature before the
  beginning of that fiscal year under Section 49a, Article III.  The
  Legislature may consider any state fiscal matter, including
  appropriations or taxation, at that special session, and any other
  matter designated by proclamation of the Governor.  A special
  session convened under this subsection may not last longer than 14
  days.
         SECTION 3.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013.
  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the
  comptroller of public accounts to make state revenue projections
  after the first fiscal year of a state biennium and the governor to
  call a special session of the legislature if actual state revenue
  for that fiscal year was at least five percent more or five percent
  less than projected state revenue."