81R6650 JTS-D
By: Wentworth S.J.R. No. 26
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature
by general law to permit counties to impose a local motor fuels tax
and an additional vehicle registration fee to be used for
transportation purposes.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 52k to read as follows:
Sec. 52k. (a) The legislature by general law may:
(1) authorize a county to enact:
(A) a local tax on the sale of gasoline and diesel
fuel in the county; and
(B) an additional vehicle registration fee on a
vehicle registered in the county; and
(2) prescribe the types of transportation projects for
which the revenue may be used.
(b) Section 7-a, Article VIII, of this constitution does not
apply to a tax authorized by this section.
SECTION 2. Section 9(c), Article VIII, Texas Constitution,
is amended to read as follows:
(c) The Legislature may authorize an additional annual ad
valorem tax to be levied and collected for transportation projects
[the further maintenance of the public roads]; provided, that a
majority of the qualified voters of the county voting at an election
to be held for that purpose shall approve the tax, not to exceed
Fifteen Cents ($ .15) on the One Hundred Dollars ($100) valuation of
the property subject to taxation in such county.
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2009.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the
legislature by general law to permit counties to impose a local
motor fuels tax and an additional vehicle registration fee to be
used for transportation purposes."