Bill Text: TX HB2707 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the form of the ballot proposition to be used in an election to approve a school district tax rate that exceeds the rollback tax rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-13 - Referred to s/c on Fiscal Matters by Chair [HB2707 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2707-Comm_Sub.html

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83R10482 DDT-F
By: Villarreal, Cortez H.B. No. 2707

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the form of the ballot proposition to be used in an
election to approve a school district tax rate that exceeds the
rollback tax rate.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.08(b), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(b) The governing body shall order that the election be held
in the school district on a date not less than 30 or more than 90
days after the day on which it adopted the tax rate. Section
41.001, Election Code, does not apply to the election unless a date
specified by that section falls within the time permitted by this
section. At the election, the ballots shall be prepared to permit
voting for or against the proposition: "Approving the ad valorem
tax rate of $_____ per $100 valuation in (name of school district)
for the current year, a rate that is $_____ higher per $100
valuation than the school district rollback tax rate, for the
purpose of (description of purpose of increase)." The ballot
proposition must include the adopted tax rate and the difference
between that rate and the rollback tax rate in the appropriate
places.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.