Bill Text: TX SJR12 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prescribing the purposes for which revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, certain motor vehicle-related taxes, and certain revenues received from the federal government may be used.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SJR12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SJR12-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prescribing the purposes for which revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, certain motor vehicle-related taxes, and certain revenues received from the federal government may be used.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SJR12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SJR12-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry | S.J.R. No. 12 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 10, 2014; February 2, 2015, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
April 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12, | ||
Nays 0; April 22, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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proposing a constitutional amendment prescribing the purposes for | ||
which revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, certain motor | ||
vehicle-related taxes, and certain revenues received from the | ||
federal government may be used. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 7-a and 7-b, Article VIII, Texas | ||
Constitution, are amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7-a. Subject to legislative appropriation, allocation | ||
and direction, all net revenues remaining after payment of all | ||
refunds allowed by law and expenses of collection derived from | ||
motor vehicle registration fees, and all taxes, except gross | ||
production and ad valorem taxes, on motor fuels and lubricants used | ||
to propel motor vehicles over public roadways, shall be used for the | ||
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provided, however, that one-fourth (1/4) of such net revenue from | ||
the motor fuel tax shall be allocated to the Available School Fund; | ||
and, provided, however, that the net revenue derived by counties | ||
from motor vehicle registration fees shall never be less than the | ||
maximum amounts allowed to be retained by each County and the | ||
percentage allowed to be retained by each County under the laws in | ||
effect on January 1, 1945. Nothing contained herein shall be | ||
construed as authorizing the pledging of the State's credit for any | ||
purpose. | ||
Sec. 7-b. All revenues received from the federal government | ||
as reimbursement for state expenditures of funds that are | ||
themselves dedicated for acquiring rights-of-way and constructing | ||
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constitutionally dedicated and shall be used only for those | ||
purposes. | ||
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 84th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2015, prescribing the purposes for which revenue | ||
from motor vehicle registration fees, taxes on motor fuels and | ||
lubricants, and certain revenues received from the federal | ||
government may be used. | ||
(b) The amendments to Sections 7-a and 7-b, Article VIII, of | ||
this constitution apply only in connection with a state fiscal | ||
biennium that begins on or after September 1, 2017. | ||
(c) This temporary provision expires September 2, 2017. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prescribing the | ||
purposes for which revenue from motor vehicle registration fees, | ||
taxes on motor fuels and lubricants, and certain revenues received | ||
from the federal government may be used." | ||
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