By: Huberty (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) H.J.R. No. 151

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 25, 2019; May 1, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; May 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 14, Nays 0; May 13, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 5(g), Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution or of a statute, the State Board of Education, the General Land Office, or another [an] entity [other than the State Board of Education] that has responsibility for the management of revenues derived from permanent school fund land or other properties may, in its sole discretion and in addition to other distributions authorized under this constitution or a statute, distribute to the available school fund each year revenue derived during that year from the land or properties, not to exceed $600 [$300] million by each entity each year.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2019. The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund."

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