Bill Text: TX HJR51 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the rights of individuals to choose or decline to choose to purchase health insurance coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 45-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-21 - Referred to State Sovereignty, Select [HJR51 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HJR51-Introduced.html
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By: Christian | H.J.R. No. 51 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the rights of | ||
individuals to choose or decline to choose to purchase health | ||
insurance coverage. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 34 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 34. (a) Each individual in this state has the right to | ||
choose or decline to choose health insurance coverage without | ||
penalty or sanction or threat of penalty or sanction. | ||
(b) A state agency, public official, employee, or political | ||
subdivision of this state may not act to impose, collect, enforce, | ||
or effectuate a penalty or sanction intended to punish or | ||
discourage the exercise of the right described by Subsection (a). | ||
(c) This section may not be construed to impair any right of | ||
contract related to the provision of health insurance coverage to | ||
any individual or group. | ||
(d) For purposes of this section, "penalty or sanction" | ||
includes any civil or criminal fine, administrative penalty, | ||
license suspension or revocation, suspension or revocation of the | ||
authority to engage in business in this state, tax, salary or wage | ||
withholding or garnishment, surcharge, or fee, or any other | ||
consequence imposed to punish or discourage the exercise of rights | ||
protected under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. 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 individuals | ||
the right to choose or decline to choose to purchase health | ||
insurance coverage without penalty or sanction or threat of penalty | ||
or sanction." |