Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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