Bill Text: TX HJR113 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR113 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR113-Introduced.html
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| By: Cason | H.J.R. No. 113 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life | ||
| of unborn children. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 19. (a) No citizen of this State shall be deprived of | ||
| life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner | ||
| disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land. | ||
| (b) The protections of this section with regard to the right | ||
| to life apply to an unborn child beginning at fertilization. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right | ||
| to life of unborn children." | ||
