Bill Text: TX HJR113 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Joint Resolution 113

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a district court to reduce or modify a sentence imposing a term of imprisonment for a person who has served not less than 10 years of the term.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-14 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HJR113 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HJR113-Introduced.html

	89R6615 EAS-D

	By: Collier	H.J.R. No. 113



	A JOINT RESOLUTION
	proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature
	to enact laws providing for a district court to reduce or modify a
	sentence imposing a term of imprisonment for a person who has served
	not less than 10 years of the term.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article V, Texas Constitution, is amended by
	adding Section 8a to read as follows:
	Sec. 8a. The legislature by general law may provide for a
	district court to reduce or modify a sentence imposing a term of
	imprisonment for a person who has served not less than 10 years of
	the term.
	SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
	submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.
	The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
	proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the
	legislature to enact laws providing for a district court to reduce
	or modify a sentence imposing a term of imprisonment for a person
	who has served not less than 10 years of the term."