Legislative Research: TX HJR40 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature

Other Sessions

SessionTitle/DescriptionLast Action
2025-2026
89th Legislature
(Introduced)		Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the requirement that a home equity loan be closed only at the office of the lender, an attorney at law, or a title company.
[HJR40 2025 Detail][HJR40 2025 Text][HJR40 2025 Comments]		2024-11-12
Filed
2023-2024
88th Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment providing honesty in state taxation.
[HJR40 2023 Detail][HJR40 2023 Text][HJR40 2023 Comments]		2023-02-28
Referred to Ways & Means
2021-2022
87th Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit the governor from regulating alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives, or combustibles by order or proclamation.
[HJR40 2021 Detail][HJR40 2021 Text][HJR40 2021 Comments]		2021-03-01
Referred to State Affairs
2019-2020
86th Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[HJR40 2019 Detail][HJR40 2019 Text][HJR40 2019 Comments]		2019-02-12
Referred to Appropriations
2017
85th Legislature 1st Special Session
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to limit for a temporary period the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a political subdivision on a residence homestead rendered uninhabitable or unusable as a resu...
[HJR40 2017 Detail][HJR40 2017 Text][HJR40 2017 Comments]		2017-07-21
Referred to Ways & Means
2017-2018
85th Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the right to repurchase real property acquired by a governmental entity through eminent domain.
[HJR40 2017 Detail][HJR40 2017 Text][HJR40 2017 Comments]		2017-03-20
Referred to Land & Resource Management
2015-2016
84th Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the legislature to establish a state gaming commission and to authorize and provide for the regulation of gaming conducted at certain locations in this state, authorizing federally recognized Indian trib...
[HJR40 2015 Detail][HJR40 2015 Text][HJR40 2015 Comments]		2015-03-03
Referred to State Affairs
2013-2014
83rd Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the appropriation of the net revenue received from the imposition of the state sales and use tax on sporting goods.
[HJR40 2013 Detail][HJR40 2013 Text][HJR40 2013 Comments]		2013-03-04
Left pending in committee
2011-2012
82nd Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran in an amount equal to the amount of ...
[HJR40 2011 Detail][HJR40 2011 Text][HJR40 2011 Comments]		2011-02-21
Referred to Ways & Means
2009-2010
81st Legislature
(Introduced - Dead)		Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governing body of a political subdivision to adopt a local option residence homestead exemption from ad valorem taxation of not less than $5,000 or more than $30,000.
[HJR40 2009 Detail][HJR40 2009 Text][HJR40 2009 Comments]		2009-04-29
Committee report sent to Calendars

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Legislative Citation

APA
TX HJR40 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature. (2019, February 12). LegiScan. Retrieved January 01, 2025, from https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR40/2019
MLA
"TX HJR40 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature." LegiScan. LegiScan LLC, 12 Feb. 2019. Web. 01 Jan. 2025. <https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR40/2019>.
Chicago
"TX HJR40 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature." February 12, 2019 LegiScan. Accessed January 01, 2025. https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR40/2019.
Turabian
LegiScan. TX HJR40 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature. 12 February 2019. https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR40/2019 (accessed January 01, 2025).

Subjects


Same As/Similar To

BillRelationshipDateTitleLast Action
HB590Enabled by2019-02-20Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Referred to Appropriations
SJR34Same As2019-02-14Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Referred to Health & Human Services

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