Bill Text: TX HJR4 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the flood infrastructure fund to assist in the financing of drainage, flood mitigation, and flood control projects.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2019-05-28 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR4 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR4-Enrolled.html
| H.J.R. No. 4 | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of | ||
| the flood infrastructure fund to assist in the financing of | ||
| drainage, flood mitigation, and flood control projects. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 49-d-14 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 49-d-14. (a) The flood infrastructure fund is created | ||
| as a special fund in the state treasury outside the general revenue | ||
| fund. | ||
| (b) As provided by general law, money in the flood | ||
| infrastructure fund may be administered and used, without further | ||
| appropriation, by the Texas Water Development Board or that board's | ||
| successor in function to provide financing for a drainage, flood | ||
| mitigation, or flood control project, including: | ||
| (1) planning and design activities; | ||
| (2) work to obtain regulatory approval to provide | ||
| nonstructural and structural flood mitigation and drainage; or | ||
| (3) construction of structural flood mitigation and | ||
| drainage infrastructure. | ||
| (c) Separate accounts may be established in the flood | ||
| infrastructure fund as necessary to administer the fund or | ||
| authorized projects. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2019. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing for the | ||
| creation of the flood infrastructure fund to assist in the | ||
| financing of drainage, flood mitigation, and flood control | ||
| projects." | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 4 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.J.R. No. 4 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| RECEIVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Secretary of State | ||
