Bill Text: TX HJR31 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring elections on proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution to be held in November of even-numbered years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-28 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR31 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HJR31-Introduced.html
  88R2966 LRM-D
 
  By: Meza H.J.R. No. 31
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment requiring elections on
  proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution to be held in
  November of even-numbered years.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1(a), Article XVII, Texas Constitution,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The Legislature, at any regular session, or at any
  special session when the matter is included within the purposes for
  which the session is convened, may propose amendments revising the
  Constitution, to be voted upon by the qualified voters for
  statewide offices and propositions, as defined in the Constitution
  and statutes of this State.  The date of the elections shall be on
  the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of
  even-numbered years [specified by the Legislature].  The proposal
  for submission must be approved by a vote of two-thirds of all the
  members elected to each House, entered by yeas and nays on the
  journals.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2024.
  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring elections on
  proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution to be held on the
  first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered
  years."
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