TITLE: Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund.

SUMMARY: Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund.

FULL TEXT:
86(R) HJR 151-Enrolled version-Bill Text H.J.R. No. 151 A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing a constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 5(g), Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended to read as follows: (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution or of a statute, the State Board of Education, the General Land Office,or another [an] entity [other than the State Board of Education] that has responsibility for the management of revenues derived from permanent school fund land or other properties may,in its sole discretion and in addition to other distributions authorized under this constitution or a statute, distribute to the available school fund each year revenue derived during that year from the land or properties, not to exceed $600 [$300] million by each entity each year. 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 provide for voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing increased distributions to the available school fund." President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.J.R. No. 151 was passed by the House on April 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 4, 1 present, not voting. Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.J.R. No. 151 was passed by the Senate on May 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. Secretary of the Senate RECEIVED: Date Secretary of State