Bill Text: TX HJR200 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-24 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR200 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR200-Introduced.html
| 88R14568 BEF-D | ||
| By: Wilson | H.J.R. No. 200 | |
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| ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United | ||
| States relating to the number of representatives in the United | ||
| States House of Representatives. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Texas, pursuant | ||
| to Article V of the United States Constitution, does hereby ratify | ||
| an amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by | ||
| resolution of the First Congress of the United States in New York, | ||
| New York, on September 25, 1789, which reads as follows: | ||
| "RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the | ||
| United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both | ||
| Houses concurring, that the following [Article] be proposed to the | ||
| Legislatures of the several States, . . . which [Article], when | ||
| ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to | ||
| all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz. | ||
| "[An ARTICLE] in addition to, and Amendment of the | ||
| Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, | ||
| and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to | ||
| the fifth Article of the original Constitution. | ||
| "Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required | ||
| by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one | ||
| Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall | ||
| amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so | ||
| regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred | ||
| Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty | ||
| thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount | ||
| to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by | ||
| Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred | ||
| Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty | ||
| thousand persons." | ||
| SECTION 2. The Legislature of the State of Texas finds that | ||
| the above-quoted article of amendment to the United States | ||
| Constitution may still be ratified by the state legislatures in the | ||
| same manner as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. | ||
| SECTION 3. The secretary of state of this state shall: | ||
| (1) notify the archivist of the United States of the | ||
| action of the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular | ||
| Session, 2023, by sending the archivist a copy of this resolution; | ||
| (2) send copies of this resolution to the United | ||
| States senators and representatives from Texas, to the vice | ||
| president of the United States, and to the speaker of the United | ||
| States House of Representatives with the request that it be printed | ||
| in full in the Congressional Record; and | ||
| (3) send copies of this resolution to the presiding | ||
| officers of the legislatures of the states that have not yet | ||
| ratified the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. | ||
