Bill Text: TX SJR26 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and contributions to purchase such items.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-02 - Committee report printed and distributed [SJR26 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SJR26-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hancock | S.J.R. No. 26 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 26, 2015; January 26, 2015, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Administration; | ||
February 2, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, | ||
Nays 0; February 2, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations | ||
for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of | ||
historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to | ||
accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and | ||
contributions to purchase such items. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39. The Legislature may, from time to time, make | ||
appropriations for preserving and perpetuating memorials of the | ||
history of Texas, by means of monuments, statues, paintings, films, | ||
videotapes, audiotapes, computer files or other electronic storage | ||
media, and documents of historical value. The Legislature or an | ||
agency of the state may accept on behalf of the state gifts of items | ||
of historical value and contributions to purchase items of | ||
historical value. | ||
SECTION 2. 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 allowing the | ||
legislature to make appropriations for preserving and perpetuating | ||
certain items of historical value and allowing the legislature and | ||
state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of | ||
historical value and contributions to preserve and perpetuate such | ||
items." | ||
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