Bill Text: TX HJR83 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state salary or per diem during certain periods unless the legislature has passed the state's budget and that budget is certified by the comptroller.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Appropriations [HJR83 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HJR83-Introduced.html
85R972 TJB-D | ||
By: Fallon | H.J.R. No. 83 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the | ||
legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state | ||
salary or per diem during certain periods unless the legislature | ||
has passed the state's budget and that budget is certified by the | ||
comptroller. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 24, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) This subsection applies only if the Comptroller of | ||
Public Accounts has not certified, as provided by Section 49a(b) of | ||
this article, before the 31st day after the last day of a Regular | ||
Session of the Legislature, a general appropriations act that | ||
constitutes this State's budget for the succeeding State fiscal | ||
biennium. Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (c) of this section | ||
and Section 17(b), Article IV, of this constitution, a Member of the | ||
Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor while acting as President | ||
of the Senate are not entitled to receive any salary or per diem to | ||
which those Officers would otherwise be entitled for the period | ||
beginning on the 31st day after the last day of a Regular Session of | ||
the Legislature and ending at the end of the day preceding the day | ||
the Comptroller certifies a general appropriations act that | ||
constitutes this State's budget for that succeeding State fiscal | ||
biennium. | ||
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
the Texas Constitution: | ||
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2017, to provide that members of the legislature | ||
and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state salary or per | ||
diem during certain periods unless the legislature has passed the | ||
state's budget and that budget is certified by the comptroller. | ||
(b) Section 24(d), Article III, of this constitution | ||
applies only in relation to the certification of a general | ||
appropriations act that constitutes this state's budget for a state | ||
fiscal biennium beginning on or after September 1, 2019. | ||
(c) This temporary provision expires September 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 providing that members | ||
of the legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a | ||
state salary or per diem during certain periods unless the | ||
legislature has passed the state's budget and that budget is | ||
certified by the comptroller." |