Texas Exclude Property Tax Payments to School Districts from Appropriations Limit Amendment (2023)

Texas Exclude Property Tax Payments to School Districts from Appropriations Limit Amendment
Election date November 7, 2023
Topic Taxes and State and local government budgets, spending and finance
Status Not on the ballot
Type Constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

The Texas Exclude Property Tax Payments to School Districts from Appropriations Limit Amendment was not on the ballot in Texas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 7, 2023.

The amendment would have excluded funds allocated by the state legislature to pay for property tax cuts to school districts from the constitutional appropriations limit.

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See also: Amending the Texas Constitution

To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a two-thirds supermajority vote is required in both the Texas State Senate and the Texas House of Representatives.

This amendment was introduced as House Joint Resolution 1 on May 30, 2023. On May 30, 2023. The same day the House passed HJR 1 by a vote of 143-0 with six absent. It did not receive a vote in the Senate.

Vote in the Texas House of Representatives May 30, 2023
Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 100  a
	Yes	No	Not voting
Total	143	0	6
Total percent	96.0%	0.0%	4.0%
Democrat	60	0	4
Republican	83	0	2

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