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1	1		By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1025
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	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2025; February 24, 2025,
	3	+	read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
	4	+	March 17, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
	5	+	Nays 1; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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6	9		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	10		AN ACT
8	11		relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes.
9	12		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	13		SECTION 1. Section 52.072(e), Election Code, is amended to
11	14		read as follows:
12	15		(e) In addition to any other requirement imposed by law for
13	16		a proposition, including a provision prescribing the proposition
14	17		language, a proposition submitted to the voters for approval of the
15	18		imposition, increase, or reduction of a tax shall, except as
16	19		otherwise required by this subsection, be printed in mixed-case
17	20		typewritten letters and [specifically state], as applicable:
18	21		(1) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
19	22		voter approval of the imposition or increase of a tax:
20	23		(A) state[,] the amount of or maximum tax rate of
21	24		the tax or tax increase for which approval is sought; and
22	25		(B) include, in capital typewritten letters of
23	26		the same font size as the rest of the proposition, the statement
24	27		"THIS IS A TAX INCREASE"; or
25	28		(2) with respect to a proposition that only seeks
26	29		voter approval of the reduction of a tax, state the amount of tax
27	30		rate reduction or the tax rate for which approval is sought.
28	31		SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
29	32		an election ordered on or after the effective date of this Act.
30	33		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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