Bill Text: TX HJR75 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR75 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR75-Introduced.html
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| By: Murphy | H.J.R. No. 75 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state | ||
| funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement | ||
| system. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 67, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) This state is not liable for any debts or other | ||
| obligations of a retirement system described by Subsection (c) of | ||
| this section. The legislature may not appropriate money to a | ||
| retirement system described by Subsection (c) of this section to | ||
| pay any debts or other obligations of the retirement system. | ||
| 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 prohibiting the | ||
| legislature from appropriating state money to a local public | ||
| retirement system to pay any debts or other obligations of the | ||
| retirement system." | ||
