By: Huffman S.J.R. No. 57
(In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2025;
February 28, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
Finance; March 19, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 15, Nays 0; March 19, 2025, sent to printer.)
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state
funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement
system.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 67, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is
amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) This state is not liable for any debts or other
obligations of a retirement system described by Subsection (c) of
this section. The legislature may not appropriate money to a
retirement system described by Subsection (c) of this section to
pay any debts or other obligations of the retirement system.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting the
legislature from appropriating state money to a local public
retirement system to pay any debts or other obligations of the
retirement system."
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