Bill Text: TX HCR69 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expressing support for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-05 - Referred to State Affairs [HCR69 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HCR69-Introduced.html

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By: Harrison H.C.R. No. 69

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The federal government was intended to be a creation
of and responsive to the sovereign states; and
WHEREAS, Ratification of the 17th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution in 1913 significantly diminished the 10th Amendment
rights of states and the people, shifting the balance of power away
from the states in favor of the national government; and
WHEREAS, A restoration of the appropriate balance of power
between the sovereign State of Texas and the federal government is
necessary; and
WHEREAS, The federal government has asserted itself in nearly
all matters of human endeavor including the exercising of
authorities not granted to it under the constitution; and
WHEREAS, The rate of unconstitutional encroachments on state
sovereignty has increased since the adoption of the 17th Amendment;
and
WHEREAS, The balance of power among large and small states
and the federal government was a matter of paramount importance to
the framers of the Constitution; accordingly, they created Congress
with both a lower house, representing the people in the states
according to population, and an upper house, for which each state
legislature would appoint two senators; this novel system struck a
balance between a strong central authority and the autonomy of
individual states; and
WHEREAS, By discarding the structure carefully developed by
the framers of the Constitution, the 17th Amendment has undermined
the legislative branch, subverting the Senate's role in
safeguarding the prerogatives of states as distinct governments and
thereby disfiguring federalism; and
WHEREAS, It is necessary to restore the original
constitutional design that federal senators serve the best interest
of the State of Texas; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby express support for repeal of the 17th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the
Senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.