Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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1	1	84R1206 JJT-D
2	2	By: Hinojosa, Eltife S.B. No. 101
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to excepting certain appropriations from computations
8	8	regarding the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of
9	9	appropriations.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 316.001, Government Code, is amended to
12	12	read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 316.001. LIMIT. The rate of growth of appropriations
14	14	in a biennium from state tax revenues, other than state tax revenues
15	15	[not] dedicated by the constitution and state tax revenues
16	16	appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest
17	17	on state debt, may not exceed the estimated rate of growth of the
18	18	state's economy.
19	19	SECTION 2. Sections 316.002(a) and (e), Government Code,
20	20	are amended to read as follows:
21	21	(a) Before the Legislative Budget Board submits the budget
22	22	as prescribed by Section 322.008(c), the board shall establish:
23	23	(1) the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy
24	24	from the current biennium to the next biennium;
25	25	(2) the level of appropriations for the current
26	26	biennium from state tax revenues, other than state tax revenues
27	27	[not] dedicated by the constitution and state tax revenues
28	28	appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest
29	29	on state debt; and
30	30	(3) the amount of state tax revenues, other than state
31	31	tax revenues [not] dedicated by the constitution and state tax
32	32	revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or
33	33	interest on state debt, that could be appropriated for the next
34	34	biennium within the limit established by the estimated rate of
35	35	growth of the state's economy.
36	36	(e) In the absence of an action by the Legislative Budget
37	37	Board to adopt a spending limit as provided in Subsections (a) and
38	38	(b), the estimated rate of growth in the state's economy from the
39	39	current biennium to the next biennium shall be treated as if it were
40	40	zero, and the amount of state tax revenues, other than state tax
41	41	revenues [not] dedicated by the constitution and state tax revenues
42	42	appropriated for the purpose of paying the principal of or interest
43	43	on state debt, that could be appropriated within the limit
44	44	established by the estimated rate of growth in the state's economy
45	45	shall be the same as the level of appropriations for the current
46	46	biennium.
47	47	SECTION 3. Section 316.006, Government Code, is amended to
48	48	read as follows:
49	49	Sec. 316.006. LIMIT ON BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS. Unless
50	50	authorized by majority vote of the members of the board from each
51	51	house, the Legislative Budget Board budget recommendations
52	52	relating to the proposed appropriations of state tax revenues,
53	53	other than state tax revenues [not] dedicated by the constitution
54	54	and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the
55	55	principal of or interest on state debt, may not exceed the limit
56	56	adopted by the committee under Section 316.005.
57	57	SECTION 4. Section 316.007(a), Government Code, is amended
58	58	to read as follows:
59	59	(a) The Legislative Budget Board shall include in its budget
60	60	recommendations the proposed limit of appropriations from state tax
61	61	revenues, other than state tax revenues [not] dedicated by the
62	62	constitution and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of
63	63	paying the principal of or interest on state debt.
64	64	SECTION 5. Section 316.008(a), Government Code, is amended
65	65	to read as follows:
66	66	(a) Unless the legislature adopts a resolution under
67	67	Section 22(b), Article VIII, [Section 22(b), of the] Texas
68	68	Constitution, raising the proposed limit on appropriations, the
69	69	proposed limit is binding on the legislature with respect to all
70	70	appropriations for the next biennium made from state tax revenues,
71	71	other than state tax revenues [not] dedicated by the constitution
72	72	and state tax revenues appropriated for the purpose of paying the
73	73	principal of or interest on state debt.
74	74	SECTION 6. (a) The changes in law made by this Act apply
75	75	only in relation to appropriations made for the state fiscal
76	76	biennium beginning September 1, 2017, and subsequent state fiscal
77	77	bienniums.
78	78	(b) Appropriations for the state fiscal biennium that
79	79	begins September 1, 2015, are governed by Subchapter A, Chapter
80	80	316, Government Code, as that subchapter provided immediately
81	81	before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
82	82	continued in effect for that purpose.
83	83	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect on the effective date of
84	84	the constitutional amendment proposed by the 84th Legislature,
85	85	Regular Session, 2015, excepting certain appropriations for
86	86	reducing state debt from the constitutional limitation on the rate
87	87	of growth of appropriations. If that amendment is not approved by
88	88	the voters, this Act has no effect.