What Constitutes an Amendment?

Recommendations: Texas Constitutional Amendments by Michael Quinn Sullivan details the nine proposed amendments for Texans that will be on the voting ballot starting today for early voters. Sullivan gives his opinion on each of the amendments on whether voters should support or oppose them when they are filling out their ballots. His audience is predominately right-leaning voters but is extended to any registered voter. Michael Sullivan is the president and CEO of the Empower Texans blog and it’s side project Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, which gives into the blogs right-leaning nature. I believe Sullivan's post is informative, while he is definitely biased for a republican agenda, he states for the readers the purpose of each amendment, and then goes forward to explain what both supporters and opponents say. I appreciate that Sullivan details each side of the amendment but believe that he could have further explained what each proposed amendment is intended to do.  

The sixth amendment which would appropriate money from the “Rainy Day Fund” to create the state water implementation revenue fund of Texas, that would help Texas in future droughts. Sullivan opposes the amendment, and while he does not give his direct opinion on it, he states that opposers of the proposal feel that it would be a mistake to allocate these funds in the event that Texas were to have a natural disaster and that it would hinder Texas borrowing money from the government. I personally support the bill and feel that the $2 billion is not going to deplete the “Rainy Day Fund.” This is the intended use for the fund, and I think it would be a mistake not to prepare ourselves for upcoming droughts that have devastated counties in our past.