Tex. Gov't Code § 316.009 · Subchapter A. LIMIT ON GROWTH OF APPROPRIATIONS
SUBMISSION OF BILL BY GOVERNOR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The governor may prepare a general appropriation bill and submit printed copies of it to the lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and each member of the legislature. The bill must be submitted not later than the 30th day of the legislature's regular session, except that if a person is inaugurated as governor who was not governor preceding the inauguration, the bill must be submitted not later than the 20th day after the date of that inauguration.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.316.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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