Bill Text: TX HJR70 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring payment of child support to be eligible to hold certain public elective offices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-28 - Referred to Elections [HJR70 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HJR70-Introduced.html
  88R42 SGM-D
 
  By: Rogers H.J.R. No. 70
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment requiring payment of child
  support to be eligible to hold certain public elective offices.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 6, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 6.  To be eligible to be [No person shall be] a Senator,
  a person must:
               (1)  [unless he] be a citizen of the United States;
               (2)  be, [and,] at the time of the person's [his]
  election or appointment, a qualified voter of this State;
               (3)  [, and shall] have been a resident of this State
  for the five years [next] preceding the [his] election or
  appointment;
               (4)  have been [, and the last year thereof] a resident
  of the district for which the person would serve as a Senator for
  the year preceding the election or appointment;
               (5)  be at least 26 [he shall be chosen, and shall have
  attained the age of twenty-six] years of age; and
               (6)  have paid all child support due and payable by the
  person unless:
                     (A)  the person has made all due payments under a
  payment plan; or
                     (B)  the child support due is being contested or
  negotiated.
         SECTION 2.  Section 7, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 7.  To be eligible to be [No person shall be] a
  Representative, a person must:
               (1)  [unless he] be a citizen of the United States;
               (2)  be, [and,] at the time of the person's [his]
  election or appointment, a qualified voter of this State;
               (3)  [, and shall] have been a resident of this State
  for the two years [next] preceding the [his] election or
  appointment;
               (4)  have been [, the last year thereof] a resident of
  the district for which the person would serve as a Representative
  for the year preceding the election or appointment;
               (5)  be at least 21 [he shall be chosen, and shall have
  attained the age of twenty-one] years of age; and
               (6)  have paid all child support due and payable by the
  person unless:
                     (A)  the person has made all due payments under a
  payment plan; or
                     (B)  the child support due is being contested or
  negotiated.
         SECTION 3.  Section 4, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 4.  The Governor elected at the general election [in
  1974, and thereafter,] shall be installed on the first Tuesday
  after the organization of the Legislature, or as soon thereafter as
  practicable, and shall hold that [his] office for the term of four
  years, or until the Governor's [his] successor shall be duly
  installed. To be eligible to be Governor, a person must:
               (1)  [He shall] be at least thirty years of age;
               (2)  be [,] a citizen of the United States;
               (3)  have been a resident of [, and shall have resided
  in] this State for the [at least] five years immediately preceding
  the [his] election; and
               (4)  have paid all child support due and payable by the
  person unless:
                     (A)  the person has made all due payments under a
  payment plan; or
                     (B)  the child support due is being contested or
  negotiated.
         SECTION 4.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring payment of
  child support to be eligible to hold the office of state
  representative, state senator, or governor."
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