Texas Parks and Recreation Facilities, Proposition 4 (September 2003)
The Texas Parks and Recreation Facilities Amendment, also known as Proposition 4, was on the September 13, 2003 ballot in Texas as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure authorized the legislature to allow conservation and reclamation districts to use taxes to develop and finance certain parks and recreation facilities. Also, the amendment authorized the legislature to allow local elections for the issuance of bonds to improve and maintain parks and recreational facilities in the Tarrant Regional Water District or a conservation and reclamation district located in whole or in part in Bastrop, Bexar, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Montgomery, Tarrant, Travis, Waller or Williamson counties.
|Texas Proposition 4 (September 2003)|
Election results via: Legislative Reference Library of Texas
Text of measure
The text of the measure can be read here.
Proposition 4 amended Section 59 of Article 16 of the Texas Constitution.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing direct democracy in Texas
As laid out in Article 17 of the Texas Constitution, in order for a proposed constitutional amendment to be placed on the ballot, the Texas State Legislature must propose the amendment in a joint resolution of both the Texas State Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The joint resolution can originate in either the House or the Senate. The resolution must be adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each house of the legislature. That amounts to a minimum of 100 votes in the House of Representatives and 21 votes in the Senate.
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