Bill Text: TX HJR12 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that a member of the legislature or person holding a statewide elective office automatically vacates office on announcing a candidacy or becoming a candidate for another elective office before the final full year of the person's term of office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR12 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HJR12-Introduced.html
82R12351 TJB-D | ||
By: Larson | H.J.R. No. 12 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment providing that a member of the | ||
legislature or person holding a statewide elective office | ||
automatically vacates office on announcing a candidacy or becoming | ||
a candidate for another elective office before the final full year | ||
of the person's term of office. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 18, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 18. (a) A [ |
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under this State which shall have been created, or the emoluments of | ||
which may have been increased, during such term, or (2) any office | ||
or place, the appointment to which may be made, in whole or in part, | ||
by either branch of the Legislature; provided, however, the fact | ||
that the term of office of Senators and Representatives does not end | ||
precisely on the last day of December but extends a few days into | ||
January of the succeeding year shall be considered as de minimis, | ||
and the ineligibility herein created shall terminate on the last | ||
day in December of the last full calendar year of the term for which | ||
the Senator or Representative [ |
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(b) No member of either House shall vote for any other | ||
member for any office whatever, which may be filled by a vote of the | ||
Legislature, except in such cases as are in this Constitution | ||
provided, nor shall any member of the Legislature be interested, | ||
either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or | ||
any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the term for | ||
which the member [ |
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(c) If a member of the Legislature announces the member's | ||
candidacy, or in fact becomes a candidate, in any general, special, | ||
or primary election for any office of profit or trust under the laws | ||
of this State or the United States other than the office then held | ||
at any time before January 1 of the last full calendar year of the | ||
member's term of office, that announcement or candidacy constitutes | ||
an automatic resignation from the legislative office then held. The | ||
vacancy created by the automatic resignation shall be filled as | ||
provided by Section 13 of this article. | ||
SECTION 2. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 65-a to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65-a. If a person who holds a statewide elective office | ||
announces the person's candidacy, or in fact becomes a candidate, | ||
in any general, special, or primary election for any office of | ||
profit or trust under the laws of this State or the United States | ||
other than the office then held at any time when the unexpired term | ||
of the State office then held exceeds one year, that announcement or | ||
candidacy constitutes an automatic resignation from the State | ||
office then held. | ||
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that a member | ||
of the legislature or a person holding a statewide elective office | ||
automatically vacates office on announcing a candidacy or becoming | ||
a candidate for another elective office in a general, special, or | ||
primary election before the final full year of the person's term of | ||
office." |