Bill Text: TX HJR17 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to observing standard time year-round or observing daylight saving time year-round based on the results of a statewide referendum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-29 - Filed [HJR17 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HJR17-Introduced.html

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87S30256 MCK-D
By: Larson H.J.R. No. 17

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment relating to observing
standard time year-round or observing daylight saving time
year-round based on the results of a statewide referendum.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 74 to read as follows:
Sec. 74. (a) The legislature by general law may:
(1) hold a statewide referendum that allows the voters
to indicate a preference for either:
(A) observing standard time year-round; or
(B) observing daylight saving time year-round;
and
(2) enact a law based on the results of the referendum
providing for the state to observe standard time year-round or to
observe daylight saving time year-round.
(b) A statewide referendum described by Subsection (a) of
this section that is held on the same day as the election on the
constitutional amendment to add this section to this article is
hereby validated.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held May 7, 2022. The
ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the state
to conduct a statewide referendum to allow the voters to choose
between observing standard time year-round and observing daylight
saving time year-round and authorizing the legislature to enact
legislation that gives effect to the option preferred by a majority
of the voters voting in the statewide referendum."