Bill Text: TX SJR54 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit a court from issuing an opinion without disclosing the judges who authored the opinion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-30 - Committee report printed and distributed [SJR54 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR54-Comm_Sub.html
By: Middleton | S.J.R. No. 54 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2023; March 3, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
March 30, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; March 30, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 54 | By: Hughes |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit a court from | ||
issuing an opinion without disclosing the judges who authored the | ||
opinion. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article V, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 1-b to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1-b. The authorship of an opinion published by a court | ||
is public information. A court shall list the authors of any | ||
opinion published by the court. | ||
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 to prohibit a court | ||
from issuing an opinion without disclosing the judges who authored | ||
the opinion." | ||
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