Bill Text: TX HJR2 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the 88th Legislature to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to certain annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 16-6)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-30 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR2 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR2-Enrolled.html
| H.J.R. No. 2 | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the 88th | ||
| Legislature to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to certain | ||
| annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 67-a to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 67-a. (a) As the Teacher Retirement System of Texas is | ||
| actuarially sound according to an actuarial valuation update | ||
| performed in February 2023, the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
| 2023: | ||
| (1) by general law may provide a cost-of-living | ||
| adjustment to annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas | ||
| who are eligible for the adjustment as determined by that general | ||
| law; and | ||
| (2) may appropriate an amount of money from the | ||
| general revenue fund to the comptroller of public accounts for | ||
| deposit to the trust fund of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas | ||
| to pay the adjustment authorized by Subdivision (1) of this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| (b) For purposes of Section 22, Article VIII, of this | ||
| constitution, an appropriation of state tax revenues made by the | ||
| 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, for the purpose described | ||
| by Subsection (a)(1) of this section is treated as if it were an | ||
| appropriation of revenues dedicated by this constitution. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the 88th | ||
| Legislature to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to certain | ||
| annuitants of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas." | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 2 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.J.R. | ||
| No. 2 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 3 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 2 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| _______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| RECEIVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Secretary of State | ||
