Proposition Prop. 5 - The Constitutional Amendment providing for assistance to and/or medical care on behalf of the needy ages, the needy blind, the needy disabled, and the needy dependent children and their caretakers; establishing Eighty Million Dollars ($80,000,000) as the maximum amount that may be paid per year from state funds for assistance only; allocating and appropriating additional sums supplementing current legislative appropriations for assistance grants; and authorizing the Legislature to enact such laws as may be necessary in order that federal matching money will be available for assistance and/or medical care.
Outcome: Adopted
Election date: 08/05/1969
Votes for: 428,207
Votes against: 233,571
Articles affected
Article 3 :
Amends
§51-a
Analyses of proposed amendments:
Texas Legislative Council Analyses of Proposed Constitutional Amendments for the August 5, 1969 election.
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