Tex. Transportation Code § 451.402: VOTER APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR TAX.

(a) An authority may not impose a tax or increase the rate of an existing tax unless a proposition proposing the imposition or rate increase is approved by a majority of the votes received at an election held for that purpose.

(b) Each new tax or rate increase must be expressed in a separate proposition consisting of a brief statement of the nature of the proposed tax. The board may submit propositions in the alternative with provision for the method of determining the result of the election.

(c) The notice of the election must contain a statement of the base or rate of the proposed tax.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.