By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1025
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 52.072(e), Election Code, is amended 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
imposition, increase, or reduction of a tax shall, except as
otherwise required by this subsection, be printed in mixed-case
typewritten letters and [specifically state], as applicable:
(1) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
voter approval of the imposition or increase of a tax:
(A) state[,] the amount of or maximum tax rate of
the tax or tax increase for which approval is sought; and
(B) include, in capital typewritten letters of
the same font size as the rest of the proposition, the statement
"THIS IS A TAX INCREASE"; or
(2) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
voter approval of the reduction of a tax, state the amount of tax
rate reduction or the tax rate for which approval is sought.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.