85R972 TJB-D
By: Taylor of Collin S.J.R. No. 21
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the
legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state
salary or per diem during certain periods unless the legislature
has passed the state's budget and that budget is certified by the
comptroller.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 24, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) This subsection applies only if the Comptroller of
Public Accounts has not certified, as provided by Section 49a(b) of
this article, before the 31st day after the last day of a Regular
Session of the Legislature, a general appropriations act that
constitutes this State's budget for the succeeding State fiscal
biennium. Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (c) of this section
and Section 17(b), Article IV, of this constitution, a Member of the
Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor while acting as President
of the Senate are not entitled to receive any salary or per diem to
which those Officers would otherwise be entitled for the period
beginning on the 31st day after the last day of a Regular Session of
the Legislature and ending at the end of the day preceding the day
the Comptroller certifies a general appropriations act that
constitutes this State's budget for that succeeding State fiscal
biennium.
SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to
the Texas Constitution:
TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies
to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2017, to provide that members of the legislature
and the lieutenant governor will not receive a state salary or per
diem during certain periods unless the legislature has passed the
state's budget and that budget is certified by the comptroller.
(b) Section 24(d), Article III, of this constitution
applies only in relation to the certification of a general
appropriations act that constitutes this state's budget for a state
fiscal biennium beginning on or after September 1, 2019.
(c) This temporary provision expires September 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that members
of the legislature and the lieutenant governor will not receive a
state salary or per diem during certain periods unless the
legislature has passed the state's budget and that budget is
certified by the comptroller."