Bill Text: TX HJR61 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the state or a municipality or county to donate certain property to the United States to promote border crossing security or international bridge trade corridors, to issue public securities to finance the acquisition or construction of that property, and to use public money to make certain payments related to public-private partnerships.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-05 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HJR61 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR61-Comm_Sub.html

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85R26758 PAM-D
By: Martinez H.J.R. No. 61
Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 61:
By: Herrero C.S.H.J.R. No. 61

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the state or a
municipality or county to donate certain property to the United
States to promote border crossing security or international bridge
trade corridors, to issue public securities to finance the
acquisition or construction of that property, and to use public
money to make certain payments related to public-private
partnerships.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Sections 52m and 52n to read as follows:
Sec. 52m. (a) The state or a municipality or county may
unconditionally donate to the United States to promote border
crossing security or international bridge trade corridors:
(1) real property acquired by and improvements to that
property acquired or constructed by the state or the municipality
or county; and
(2) technology or equipment acquired by the state or
the municipality or county.
(b) For the purposes described by Subsection (a) of this
section, the state or a municipality or county may issue public
securities as provided under general law for financing public works
to:
(1) finance the acquisition of property described by
that subsection or the construction of improvements described by
that subsection; or
(2) refund or refinance existing debt incurred by the
state or the municipality or county to acquire property described
by that subsection or to construct improvements described by that
subsection.
Sec. 52n. The state or a municipality or county may use
public money to pay lease payments, service payments, user fees,
debt service, or other costs associated with a public-private
partnership.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the state
or a municipality or county to unconditionally donate to the United
States certain property acquired or constructed by the state or the
municipality or county to promote border crossing security or
international bridge trade corridors, to issue public securities to
finance the acquisition or construction of that property, and to
use public money to make certain payments related to public-private
partnerships."