Bill Text: TX HR2547 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Creating a Board of Managers to present articles of impeachment preferred by the house against Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. to the senate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-29 - Reported enrolled [HR2547 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR2547-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 2547 | ||
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| BE IT RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th | ||
| Legislature of the State of Texas hereby create a Board of Managers | ||
| to present to the Texas Senate articles of impeachment preferred by | ||
| the house against Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr.; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Board of Managers be composed of 12 | ||
| members of the house to be appointed by the speaker of the house and | ||
| that the speaker shall also designate the chair and vice chair of | ||
| the board; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That for purposes of the house rules of procedure, | ||
| and except as otherwise provided by this resolution, the Board of | ||
| Managers shall be treated in the same manner as the Committee on | ||
| Redistricting; the board is authorized to meet without regard to | ||
| the notice provisions in the house rules of procedure, to meet in | ||
| executive session for any quasi-judicial purpose, including | ||
| preparing for the exhibition of articles of impeachment, without | ||
| regard to the house rules of procedure, to employ counsel and other | ||
| staff, and to utilize the services of other members of the house | ||
| when needed to assist in the discharge of the board's duties; and, | ||
| be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the members of the Board of Managers and any | ||
| other members of the house providing assistance to the board are | ||
| entitled to a per diem as provided by Section 665.006, Government | ||
| Code, for a member of a house committee meeting for an impeachment | ||
| proceeding; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the chair of the Board of Managers may cause to | ||
| be issued and enforced any process necessary for the proper | ||
| dispatch of the board's work, that the board be granted the | ||
| investigatory powers of a general investigating committee under the | ||
| house rules of procedure and Chapter 301, Government Code, and that | ||
| the board is granted all powers granted to committees by the house | ||
| rules of procedure and Chapters 301 and 665, Government Code; and, | ||
| be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Board of Managers shall present the | ||
| articles of impeachment to the senate for purposes of Section | ||
| 665.022, Government Code, by delivering to the senate a certified | ||
| copy of enrolled House Resolution 2377 preferring the articles of | ||
| impeachment. | ||
| Murr | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 2547 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 29, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
