86R1471 ATP-D
 
  By: Birdwell S.B. No. 915
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to ballot language requirements for a proposition seeking
  voter approval for the issuance of bonds.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 52.072, Election Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
  follows:
         (e)  In addition to any other requirement imposed by law for
  a proposition, including a provision prescribing the proposition
  language, a proposition submitted to the voters for approval of the
  issuance of bonds or the imposition, increase, or reduction of a tax
  shall specifically state, as applicable:
               (1)  with respect to a proposition seeking voter
  approval of the issuance of bonds:
                     (A)  the total principal amount of the bonds to be
  authorized, if approved; [and]
                     (B)  a [general] description of the single
  specific purpose [the purposes] for which the bonds are to be
  authorized, if approved; and
                     (C)  the rate of any tax that will be increased or
  imposed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds;
               (2)  with respect to a proposition that only seeks
  voter approval of the imposition or increase of a tax, the amount of
  or maximum tax rate of the tax or tax increase for which approval is
  sought; or
               (3)  with respect to a proposition that only seeks
  voter approval of the reduction of a tax, the amount of tax rate
  reduction or the tax rate for which approval is sought.
         (f)  Each single specific purpose for which bonds requiring
  voter approval are to be issued must be printed on the ballot as a
  separate proposition.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An election ordered before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered, and the
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.