Gobierno De Texas

My friend from Ohio visited and we started to talk about the Texas Constitutional Amendments. As she was very interested in the topic we started to talk about more specific stuff such as the 83rd legislature taking care of the water; one of the nine amendments that will be presented in November 2013, regarding the removal of provisions for the state medical education board; and the constitutional amendments dealing with college student loan addressed in the 2011 Texas Legislature.

Making a sense of the 83rd legislature talking about water, I told her that these projects are going to be funded through a new infrastructure bank talked and created in the House Bill 4, which will need $2 billion initial investment. The changes that the House Bill 4 made to the Texas Water Development Board was to finish all the main projects that could ensure efficient use of the available assets. It also creates a long-term water project that is made by a new funding mechanism that can double the states investment in the water projects.

We also touched one the subject of the amendments that will be presented in November 2013, this was the removal of provisions for the state medical education board. Heatly in 1973 enacted the House Bill 686, to make the State Rural Medical Education Board. The main reason was to provide financial to students of medicine to practice in rural areas around the state. A second proposition wants to remove it by repealing the Texas Constitution, Art. 3, sec 50a. The vote proposal says that the constitutional amendment should eliminate an obsolete requirement for a State Medical Educational Board and a State Medical Education Fund, which neither of them are functioning.

The constitutional amendments dealing with college student loan addressed in 2011 Texas Legislature was our biggest talking point. The SJR50 help students attend private or public education colleges in Texas. The use of general bonds to finance the low-interest loans to persons who don’t have resources to have a good education was given by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board administers. Supporters make a point by making the people see that this student loan should not be taken off because it has helped a lot of people and the program is self-supporting, because it is dependent on interest payments and not from loans. Opponents say that even though the student loan is self-supporting, this would add more debts to the state because of the bonds that have to be repaid. The state should limit the finance of these loans.

We ended up talking that I believed that this student loan is very helpful for people who need help for their children to have a bright future, specially because at the end its for the future of the country to have people that have a good education.

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