86R15605 ATP-D
By: Birdwell S.B. No. 30
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to ballot language requirements for a proposition seeking
voter approval for the issuance of bonds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 52.072, Election Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
follows:
(e) In addition to any other requirement imposed by law for
a proposition, including a provision prescribing the proposition
language, a proposition submitted to the voters for approval of the
issuance of bonds or the imposition, increase, or reduction of a tax
shall specifically state, as applicable:
(1) with respect to a proposition seeking voter
approval of the issuance of bonds:
(A) the total principal amount of the bonds to be
authorized, if approved; [and]
(B) a plain language [general] description of the
single specific purpose [the purposes] for which the bonds are to be
authorized, if approved; and
(C) the rate of any tax that will be increased or
imposed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds;
(2) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
voter approval of the imposition or increase of a tax, the amount of
or maximum tax rate of the tax or tax increase for which approval is
sought; or
(3) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
voter approval of the reduction of a tax, the amount of tax rate
reduction or the tax rate for which approval is sought.
(f) Each single specific purpose for which bonds requiring
voter approval are to be issued must be printed on the ballot as a
separate proposition.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
An election ordered before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect when the election was ordered, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.