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By: Anchia H.J.R. No. 29
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the authorization
or funding of an elementary or secondary education voucher program
or similar program.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 7 to read as follows:
Sec. 7. (a) In this section, "private school" means a
nongovernmental educational establishment that exists for the
general education of elementary or secondary students.
(b) The legislature may not appropriate money for or
authorize a voucher program, education savings account, tax credit
scholarship program, or similar program under which state revenue
is used to pay all or any part of the costs of a student's attendance
at a private school.
(c) This section does not prohibit the use of state revenue
to pay all or any part of the costs of attendance at a private school
by a student with a disability if the student is entitled under
federal law to receive special education services in that manner at
no cost to the student.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 6, 2018.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the
authorization or funding of a voucher program or similar program
under which state revenue is used to pay the costs of a student's
attendance at a private elementary or secondary school."