Bill Text: TX HJR29 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program or similar program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-21 - Referred to Public Education [HJR29 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HJR29-Introduced.html
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| By: Anchia | H.J.R. No. 29 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization | ||
| or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program | ||
| or similar program. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 7 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 7. (a) In this section, "private school" means a | ||
| nongovernmental educational establishment that exists for the | ||
| general education of elementary or secondary students. | ||
| (b) The legislature may not appropriate money for or | ||
| authorize a voucher program, education savings account, tax credit | ||
| scholarship program, or similar program under which state revenue | ||
| is used to pay all or any part of the costs of a student's attendance | ||
| at a private school. | ||
| (c) This section does not prohibit the use of state revenue | ||
| to pay all or any part of the costs of attendance at a private school | ||
| by a student with a disability if the student is entitled under | ||
| federal law to receive special education services in that manner at | ||
| no cost to the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 6, 2018. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the | ||
| authorization or funding of a voucher program or similar program | ||
| under which state revenue is used to pay the costs of a student's | ||
| attendance at a private elementary or secondary school." | ||
