Bill Text: TX HJR4 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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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-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Phelan, et al. H.J.R. No. 4
(Senate Sponsor - Creighton, Hinojosa)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019;
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Water &
Rural Affairs; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.)
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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."
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