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89(R) SB 1025 - Enrolled version - Bill Text
S.B. No. 1025
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, at the top of the proposition 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 immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________
______________________________
President of the Senate
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1025 passed the Senate on
March 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays 6; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 12, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 5.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1025 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 8, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 102,
Nays 45, two present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
______________________________
Governor