Bill Text: TX HJR20 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to require the legislature to appropriate funds to state institutions of higher education to fund certain education programs for veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR20 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HJR20-Introduced.html

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By: Lopez H.J.R. No. 20

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment to require the legislature to
appropriate funds to state institutions of higher education to fund
certain education programs for veterans.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 21 to read as follows:
Sec. 21. The legislature shall appropriate to each state
institution of higher education, out of the first money coming into
the treasury not otherwise appropriated by this constitution, an
amount sufficient to fund at least 50 percent of the cost to the
institutions of providing tuition and fee exemptions for veterans
under a program created by the legislature by general law.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021.
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring the
legislature to appropriate funds to state institutions of higher
education to fund certain education programs for veterans."