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TOUR INFORMATION The Texas State Capitol and Capitol Grounds are s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive one of the most popular tourist attractions in Austin s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive and a favorite spot for many school groups as well. Other nearby interests are the Bob Bullock Texas racy ing State History Museum and the Capitol Complex T O. K Tracy O. King Visitors Center. For more information about the LegisL a T ive RepoRT D isTRi CT 80 summeR 2014 activities and tours, visit the website provided below Capitol Office: c O n s T i T u T i O n a l District Office: or contact our office for assistance. P.O. Box 2910 4735 Loma Vista Drive Austin, Texas 78768-2910 a m e n d m e n T Laredo, Texas 78046 (512) 463-0194 (956) 794-1767 Fax (512) 463-1220 Representative Tracy King joins Zavala County in Texas Capitol & Visitors Center v OT e r ’ s g u i d e Texas Legislature Online: paying tribute to all veterans on Memorial Day. Email: www.capitol.state.tx.us www.tspb.state.tx.us/CVC/home/home.html [email protected] Committee Assignments or (512) 305-8402 Texas House of Representatives IMPORTANT DATES Agriculture & Livestock, Chair • Natural Resources September 1, 2014 - Labor Day The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum October 13, 2014 - Columbus Day www.thestoryoftexas.com or (512) 936-8746 November 2, 2014 - End of Daylight Savings November 4, 2014 - Election Day Texas Memorial Museum Dear Fellow Texans: November 11, 2014 - Veterans Day (on the UT-Austin Campus) December 7, 2014 - Pearl Harbor Day www.utexas.edu/tmm/ or (512) 232-4278 Since the end of the last legislative session in 2013, House committees have been charged with studying issues that the Legislature will consider when it LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR LBJ Library and Museum convenes for the 84th Legislative Session in January First Day to Prefile Bills: November 10, 2014 (on the UT-Austin Campus) 2015. These committees are conducting hearings to Opening Day of the 84th Legislative Session: www.lbjlibrary.org or (512) 721-0172 gather information so they can provide a report to the

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Proposition Number 1 Proposition 1, in combination with HB 1, would County Road Funding SJR 1 provide an assurance that a sufficient balance Last session, the Legislature passed SB 1747 which created the County Transportation Infrastructure Fund remained in the rainy day fund, while granting each Grant Program to help counties complete road repair projects in areas primarily impacted by heavy oil/gas related On August 5, 2013, the 83rd Legislature approved Legislature the ability to address the needs of the time. traffic. Each county in District 80 applied and recently received grant awards to address their transportation House Bill 1 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 during In addition, HB 1, which would enable the Legislature infrastructure needs. the Third Called Session of the 83rd Legislature. If to adjust a sufficient balance determination within approved, these pieces of legislation would provide the first 60 days of a regular session, would ensure annual disbursements for transportation funding, proper legislative oversight in determining what the Tracy O. King’s Committee Assignments with an estimated $1.4 billion transferred in the state should maintain as a reserve fund. first year from the economic stabilization fund, more Chairman - House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock commonly known as the Rainy Day Fund. Member - Natural Resources • Edwards Aquifer Legislative Oversight Committee • Energy Council OPPONENTS SAY SJR 1 proposes a constitutional amendment that Proposition 1 would not provide a solution to the authorizes this redirection of funds. HB 1 outlines INTERIM CHARGES House Natural Resources Committee Representative Tracy King addresses officials at the South state’s serious, ongoing highway funding shortage the mechanism and details of when the funds are • Monitor the implementation of HB 4 (83R) Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association. and would not adequately safeguard emergency Realtors from House District 80 visit In preparation for the 84th Legislative Session, to be transferred and how the Texas Department and SJR 1 (83R) and the progress of the Texas reserves in the rainy day fund. with Representative Tracy King in Austin. every standing committee of the Texas House of of Transportation (TxDOT) can use them. HB 1 Proposition 1 would generate an estimated $1.4 billion Representatives will study issues, topics and ideas that Water Development Board and other entities will take effect only if voters approve the proposed for public highways in fiscal 2015, decreasing to $1.2 in implementing this legislation to provide a No additional revenue. Because the proposed have been identified as key priorities. The committees constitutional amendment. billion in the following years. This steady revenue Election Day: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 stable, long-term funding source for the State amendment would not authorize the collection of that I serve on were given the following interim stream would send a message to citizens, crediting Contact your county clerk’s office for a listing of Water Plan. any additional revenue, in effect it would take money charges: bureaus, and businesses that Texas is serious about voting times and locations in your area. • Evaluate the availability, management, and Ballot Language: out of one fiscal pocket and move it to another. financing critical transportation infrastructure. development of groundwater in the state. Proposition 1 Proposition 1 would reduce the amount of revenue House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock County Information Consider the economic, environmental, and “The constitutional amendment providing for the flowing into the rainy day fund by instead dedicating Proposition 1 would dedicate an additional, • Evaluate actions by state agencies under social impacts of groundwater usage and use and dedication of certain money transferred to it to transportation. While this might not cause For information about voting locations and much needed funding stream to constructing and the committee’s jurisdiction to increase production in the agricultural, municipal, and the state highway fund to assist in the completion problems in times of plenty, it could create a dilemma procedures, please contact your county clerk’s office maintaining public, non-tolled roads. If approved, transparency, accountability, and efficiency. energy sectors. In particular, examine methods of transportation construction, maintenance, and during a lean period. In the event of an emergency or elections administrator. Below is the contact the amendment would represent a departure from Consider cost-saving technologies such as the to facilitate further development of brackish rehabilitation projects, not to include toll roads.” that demanded state spending during a fiscal crisis, number for each county in House District 80. relying on debt and toll roads as primary mechanisms route optimization system used by the Texas groundwater resources and to improve the a depleted rainy day fund might be the only source Department of Agriculture to save funds for funding highways. The amendment would make DIMMIT COUNTY WEBB COUNTY consistency and certainty of permitting by Proposition 1 would direct the comptroller to of revenue available to lawmakers who traditionally use of expected increases in oil and gas production in inspection activities. Identify and make groundwater districts without undercutting allocate to Fund 6 one-half of the general revenue have been reluctant to drain the account below a Mario Z. Garcia Oscar Villarreal tax remissions to increase funding for highways and recommendations to address gaps and to reasonable regional and local regulation of derived from oil and gas production taxes that certain amount, generally perceived to be about $6 (830) 876-4239 (956) 523-4050 retain a solid reserve. improve efficiency and access to user-friendly groundwater. currently is transferred to the rainy day fund. The billion in 2013. information while protecting appropriate data • Explore opportunities to encourage voluntary Legislature would, by statute, create a procedure FRIO COUNTY ZAPATA COUNTY security. While Proposition 1 would authorize a dedicated protection and stewardship of privately owned whereby the amount allocated to the rainy day fund Proposition 1 would provide no guarantee of a Angelina Tullis Mary Jayne • Study the feasibility of the creation of a border funding stream for transportation projects, it also lands in support of the state’s water supply could be greater than one half. Revenue transferred minimum balance in the rainy day fund before (830) 334-2214 Villarreal-Bonoan agricultural inspection training program would allow the Legislature to take necessary means and to protect environmental flow needs to Fund 6 under Proposition 1 could be used only authorizing a transfer of funds to Fund 6. The (956) 765-9915 and the authority of Texas Department of to ensure a minimum balance in the rainy day fund in Texas rivers. Examine methods in which for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights of amendment relegates this authority to each UVALDE COUNTY Agriculture (TDA) employees to augment was available to respond to natural disasters and state agencies, water rights holders, and non- way for public roadways other than toll roads. legislature, which is inevitably subject to the whims Margarita Del Toro ZAVALA COUNTY federal produce inspectors at Texas border fiscal emergencies. HB 1, the amendment’s enabling governmental organizations can work together and political vagaries of any given legislative session. (830) 278-3225 Oralia G. Trevino land ports of entry. legislation, calls for the appointment of a committee through programs like the Texas Farm and Proposition 1 would take effect immediately upon The rainy day fund transfer is designated in the (830) 374-2331 • Evaluate the Texas Right to Farm Act and of legislators to determine a sufficient balance for Ranch Lands Conservation Program and the receiving the necessary approval from voters and Constitution in part to provide a well-protected determine if certain recommendations and the rainy day fund under which no general revenue Texas Water Trust. would apply to transfers the comptroller made after reserve and to ensure continuity and stability. A updates to the law should be made in efforts would be transferred to Fund 6. • Examine strategies to enhance the use of September 1, 2014. constitutionally protected reserve is important for the to protect agricultural operations. aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) projects, state’s ability to weather economic calamities and for • Examine current statutes and rules to The sufficient balance provision authorized by including a review of existing ASR facilities in its credit rating. Failing to provide a constitutionally determine any necessary enhancements that Proposition 1 would achieve a compromise between Texas and elsewhere. designated floor under which no transfer to Fund 6 can assist in the eradication of feral hogs SUPPORTERS SAY an automatic Fund 6 transfer irrespective of the • Monitor the use of funds provided or made would be made — such as has been considered and by using practical solutions and effective available to Texas in relation to the 2010 Proposition 1, in combination with its enabling status of the rainy day fund and a constitutionally approved in previous versions of this legislation — eradication techniques. (Joint charge with Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and make legislation, HB 1, would take a key step toward established floor under which no transfer would be would open the door to decisions that could leave the House Committee on Culture, Recreation recommendations on the appropriate use of securing critical funding for transportation projects made. Without a floor of any kind, a combination of future legislatures with shortfalls in revenue and a and Tourism) these funds in the future. (Joint charge with in Texas. While far from a cure-all, the proposed unforeseen events could leave the Legislature with shallow reserve pool from which to draw. the House Committee on Appropriations) resolution would present a viable means to secure insufficient funds to finance emergency spending a portion of the funding Texas needs to maintain needs. A constitutionally designated floor, on the roadway congestion at current levels, given other hand, might not provide the Legislature To see a full list of interim charges go to the Texas House of Representatives website, www.house.state.tx.us. population and economic growth. sufficient flexibility to meet varying needs each Representative Tracy King participates in the Washington session. Birthday Celebration Association parade in Laredo. CoN s T i T u T ioN a L ameNDmeNT voT e R ’s guiD e CoN s T i T u T ioN a L ameNDmeNT voT e R ’s guiD e

Proposition Number 1 Proposition 1, in combination with HB 1, would County Road Funding SJR 1 provide an assurance that a sufficient balance Last session, the Legislature passed SB 1747 which created the County Transportation Infrastructure Fund remained in the rainy day fund, while granting each Grant Program to help counties complete road repair projects in areas primarily impacted by heavy oil/gas related On August 5, 2013, the 83rd Legislature approved Legislature the ability to address the needs of the time. traffic. Each county in District 80 applied and recently received grant awards to address their transportation House Bill 1 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 during In addition, HB 1, which would enable the Legislature infrastructure needs. the Third Called Session of the 83rd Legislature. If to adjust a sufficient balance determination within approved, these pieces of legislation would provide the first 60 days of a regular session, would ensure annual disbursements for transportation funding, proper legislative oversight in determining what the Tracy O. King’s Committee Assignments with an estimated $1.4 billion transferred in the state should maintain as a reserve fund. first year from the economic stabilization fund, more Chairman - House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock commonly known as the Rainy Day Fund. Member - Natural Resources • Edwards Aquifer Legislative Oversight Committee • Energy Council OPPONENTS SAY SJR 1 proposes a constitutional amendment that Proposition 1 would not provide a solution to the authorizes this redirection of funds. HB 1 outlines INTERIM CHARGES House Natural Resources Committee Representative Tracy King addresses officials at the South state’s serious, ongoing highway funding shortage the mechanism and details of when the funds are • Monitor the implementation of HB 4 (83R) Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association. and would not adequately safeguard emergency Realtors from House District 80 visit In preparation for the 84th Legislative Session, to be transferred and how the Texas Department and SJR 1 (83R) and the progress of the Texas reserves in the rainy day fund. with Representative Tracy King in Austin. every standing committee of the Texas House of of Transportation (TxDOT) can use them. HB 1 Proposition 1 would generate an estimated $1.4 billion Representatives will study issues, topics and ideas that Water Development Board and other entities will take effect only if voters approve the proposed for public highways in fiscal 2015, decreasing to $1.2 in implementing this legislation to provide a No additional revenue. Because the proposed have been identified as key priorities. The committees constitutional amendment. billion in the following years. This steady revenue Election Day: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 stable, long-term funding source for the State amendment would not authorize the collection of that I serve on were given the following interim stream would send a message to citizens, crediting Contact your county clerk’s office for a listing of Water Plan. any additional revenue, in effect it would take money charges: bureaus, and businesses that Texas is serious about voting times and locations in your area. • Evaluate the availability, management, and Ballot Language: out of one fiscal pocket and move it to another. financing critical transportation infrastructure. development of groundwater in the state. Proposition 1 Proposition 1 would reduce the amount of revenue House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock County Information Consider the economic, environmental, and “The constitutional amendment providing for the flowing into the rainy day fund by instead dedicating Proposition 1 would dedicate an additional, • Evaluate actions by state agencies under social impacts of groundwater usage and use and dedication of certain money transferred to it to transportation. While this might not cause For information about voting locations and much needed funding stream to constructing and the committee’s jurisdiction to increase production in the agricultural, municipal, and the state highway fund to assist in the completion problems in times of plenty, it could create a dilemma procedures, please contact your county clerk’s office maintaining public, non-tolled roads. If approved, transparency, accountability, and efficiency. energy sectors. In particular, examine methods of transportation construction, maintenance, and during a lean period. In the event of an emergency or elections administrator. Below is the contact the amendment would represent a departure from Consider cost-saving technologies such as the to facilitate further development of brackish rehabilitation projects, not to include toll roads.” that demanded state spending during a fiscal crisis, number for each county in House District 80. relying on debt and toll roads as primary mechanisms route optimization system used by the Texas groundwater resources and to improve the a depleted rainy day fund might be the only source Department of Agriculture to save funds for funding highways. The amendment would make DIMMIT COUNTY WEBB COUNTY consistency and certainty of permitting by Proposition 1 would direct the comptroller to of revenue available to lawmakers who traditionally use of expected increases in oil and gas production in inspection activities. Identify and make groundwater districts without undercutting allocate to Fund 6 one-half of the general revenue have been reluctant to drain the account below a Mario Z. Garcia Oscar Villarreal tax remissions to increase funding for highways and recommendations to address gaps and to reasonable regional and local regulation of derived from oil and gas production taxes that certain amount, generally perceived to be about $6 (830) 876-4239 (956) 523-4050 retain a solid reserve. improve efficiency and access to user-friendly groundwater. currently is transferred to the rainy day fund. The billion in 2013. information while protecting appropriate data • Explore opportunities to encourage voluntary Legislature would, by statute, create a procedure FRIO COUNTY ZAPATA COUNTY security. While Proposition 1 would authorize a dedicated protection and stewardship of privately owned whereby the amount allocated to the rainy day fund Proposition 1 would provide no guarantee of a Angelina Tullis Mary Jayne • Study the feasibility of the creation of a border funding stream for transportation projects, it also lands in support of the state’s water supply could be greater than one half. Revenue transferred minimum balance in the rainy day fund before (830) 334-2214 Villarreal-Bonoan agricultural inspection training program would allow the Legislature to take necessary means and to protect environmental flow needs to Fund 6 under Proposition 1 could be used only authorizing a transfer of funds to Fund 6. The (956) 765-9915 and the authority of Texas Department of to ensure a minimum balance in the rainy day fund in Texas rivers. Examine methods in which for constructing, maintaining, and acquiring rights of amendment relegates this authority to each UVALDE COUNTY Agriculture (TDA) employees to augment was available to respond to natural disasters and state agencies, water rights holders, and non- way for public roadways other than toll roads. legislature, which is inevitably subject to the whims Margarita Del Toro ZAVALA COUNTY federal produce inspectors at Texas border fiscal emergencies. HB 1, the amendment’s enabling governmental organizations can work together and political vagaries of any given legislative session. (830) 278-3225 Oralia G. Trevino land ports of entry. legislation, calls for the appointment of a committee through programs like the Texas Farm and Proposition 1 would take effect immediately upon The rainy day fund transfer is designated in the (830) 374-2331 • Evaluate the Texas Right to Farm Act and of legislators to determine a sufficient balance for Ranch Lands Conservation Program and the receiving the necessary approval from voters and Constitution in part to provide a well-protected determine if certain recommendations and the rainy day fund under which no general revenue Texas Water Trust. would apply to transfers the comptroller made after reserve and to ensure continuity and stability. A updates to the law should be made in efforts would be transferred to Fund 6. • Examine strategies to enhance the use of September 1, 2014. constitutionally protected reserve is important for the to protect agricultural operations. aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) projects, state’s ability to weather economic calamities and for • Examine current statutes and rules to The sufficient balance provision authorized by including a review of existing ASR facilities in its credit rating. Failing to provide a constitutionally determine any necessary enhancements that Proposition 1 would achieve a compromise between Texas and elsewhere. designated floor under which no transfer to Fund 6 can assist in the eradication of feral hogs SUPPORTERS SAY an automatic Fund 6 transfer irrespective of the • Monitor the use of funds provided or made would be made — such as has been considered and by using practical solutions and effective available to Texas in relation to the 2010 Proposition 1, in combination with its enabling status of the rainy day fund and a constitutionally approved in previous versions of this legislation — eradication techniques. (Joint charge with Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and make legislation, HB 1, would take a key step toward established floor under which no transfer would be would open the door to decisions that could leave the House Committee on Culture, Recreation recommendations on the appropriate use of securing critical funding for transportation projects made. Without a floor of any kind, a combination of future legislatures with shortfalls in revenue and a and Tourism) these funds in the future. (Joint charge with in Texas. While far from a cure-all, the proposed unforeseen events could leave the Legislature with shallow reserve pool from which to draw. the House Committee on Appropriations) resolution would present a viable means to secure insufficient funds to finance emergency spending a portion of the funding Texas needs to maintain needs. A constitutionally designated floor, on the roadway congestion at current levels, given other hand, might not provide the Legislature To see a full list of interim charges go to the Texas House of Representatives website, www.house.state.tx.us. population and economic growth. sufficient flexibility to meet varying needs each Representative Tracy King participates in the Washington session. Birthday Celebration Association parade in Laredo. TOUR INFORMATION The Texas State Capitol and Capitol Grounds are s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive one of the most popular tourist attractions in Austin s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive and a favorite spot for many school groups as well. Other nearby interests are the Bob Bullock Texas racy ing State History Museum and the Capitol Complex T O. K Tracy O. King Visitors Center. For more information about the LegisL a T ive RepoRT D isTRi CT 80 summeR 2014 activities and tours, visit the website provided below Capitol Office: c O n s T i T u T i O n a l District Office: or contact our office for assistance. P.O. Box 2910 4735 Loma Vista Drive Austin, Texas 78768-2910 a m e n d m e n T Laredo, Texas 78046 (512) 463-0194 (956) 794-1767 Fax (512) 463-1220 Representative Tracy King joins Zavala County in Texas Capitol & Visitors Center v OT e r ’ s g u i d e Texas Legislature Online: paying tribute to all veterans on Memorial Day. Email: www.capitol.state.tx.us www.tspb.state.tx.us/CVC/home/home.html [email protected] Committee Assignments or (512) 305-8402 Texas House of Representatives IMPORTANT DATES Agriculture & Livestock, Chair • Natural Resources September 1, 2014 - Labor Day The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum October 13, 2014 - Columbus Day www.thestoryoftexas.com or (512) 936-8746 November 2, 2014 - End of Daylight Savings November 4, 2014 - Election Day Texas Memorial Museum Dear Fellow Texans: November 11, 2014 - Veterans Day (on the UT-Austin Campus) December 7, 2014 - Pearl Harbor Day www.utexas.edu/tmm/ or (512) 232-4278 Since the end of the last legislative session in 2013, House committees have been charged with studying issues that the Legislature will consider when it LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR LBJ Library and Museum convenes for the 84th Legislative Session in January First Day to Prefile Bills: November 10, 2014 (on the UT-Austin Campus) 2015. These committees are conducting hearings to Opening Day of the 84th Legislative Session: www.lbjlibrary.org or (512) 721-0172 gather information so they can provide a report to the

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The Texas House of Representatives is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age or disability in employment or the provision of services. This newsletter is available in alternate formats upon request. Please call 1-800-241-1163. TOUR INFORMATION The Texas State Capitol and Capitol Grounds are s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive one of the most popular tourist attractions in Austin s T a T e R epR eseNTa T ive and a favorite spot for many school groups as well. Other nearby interests are the Bob Bullock Texas racy ing State History Museum and the Capitol Complex T O. K Tracy O. King Visitors Center. For more information about the LegisL a T ive RepoRT D isTRi CT 80 summeR 2014 activities and tours, visit the website provided below Capitol Office: c O n s T i T u T i O n a l District Office: or contact our office for assistance. P.O. Box 2910 4735 Loma Vista Drive Austin, Texas 78768-2910 a m e n d m e n T Laredo, Texas 78046 (512) 463-0194 (956) 794-1767 Fax (512) 463-1220 Representative Tracy King joins Zavala County in Texas Capitol & Visitors Center v OT e r ’ s g u i d e Texas Legislature Online: paying tribute to all veterans on Memorial Day. Email: www.capitol.state.tx.us www.tspb.state.tx.us/CVC/home/home.html [email protected] Committee Assignments or (512) 305-8402 Texas House of Representatives IMPORTANT DATES Agriculture & Livestock, Chair • Natural Resources September 1, 2014 - Labor Day The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum October 13, 2014 - Columbus Day www.thestoryoftexas.com or (512) 936-8746 November 2, 2014 - End of Daylight Savings November 4, 2014 - Election Day Texas Memorial Museum Dear Fellow Texans: November 11, 2014 - Veterans Day (on the UT-Austin Campus) December 7, 2014 - Pearl Harbor Day www.utexas.edu/tmm/ or (512) 232-4278 Since the end of the last legislative session in 2013, House committees have been charged with studying issues that the Legislature will consider when it LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR LBJ Library and Museum convenes for the 84th Legislative Session in January First Day to Prefile Bills: November 10, 2014 (on the UT-Austin Campus) 2015. These committees are conducting hearings to Opening Day of the 84th Legislative Session: www.lbjlibrary.org or (512) 721-0172 gather information so they can provide a report to the

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State Penalty State Last Day to File a Bill: March 13, 2015 The Blanton Museum of Art TEXAS of STATE

Last Day of Session (Sine Die): June 1, 2015 (on the UT-Austin Campus) Business Official I encourage you to take a few minutes from your busy

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