Bill Text: TX HJR82 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for observing daylight saving time year-round.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR82 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR82-Introduced.html
| 88R6602 MCK-D | ||
| By: Metcalf | H.J.R. No. 82 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide | ||
| referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for observing | ||
| daylight saving time year-round. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 74 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 74. (a) The legislature by general law may: | ||
| (1) hold a statewide referendum that allows the voters | ||
| to indicate a preference for or against observing daylight saving | ||
| time year-round; and | ||
| (2) enact a law providing for observing daylight | ||
| saving time year-round based on the results of the referendum. | ||
| (b) A statewide referendum described by Subsection (a) of | ||
| this section that is held on the same day as the election on the | ||
| constitutional amendment to add this section to this article is | ||
| hereby validated. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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 authorizing the state | ||
| to conduct a statewide referendum to allow the voters to vote for or | ||
| against observing daylight saving time year-round and authorizing | ||
| the legislature to enact legislation if a majority of the voters | ||
| voting in the statewide referendum vote to observe daylight saving | ||
| time year-round." | ||
