Bill Text: TX SCR6 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Providing for a joint session to canvass the votes for the governor and lieutenant governor and for a joint session for the inaugural ceremony.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-01-24 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SCR6 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SCR6-Enrolled.html

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S.C.R. No. 6

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the 88th Legislature, That a joint
committee, composed of six members of the senate appointed by the
lieutenant governor and six members of the house of representatives
appointed by the speaker of the house, arrange for the canvass of
the votes cast for governor and lieutenant governor at the general
election held on November 8, 2022, and that a joint session of the
senate and house be held in the hall of the house of representatives
at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 12, 2023, for the purpose of
counting the votes, receiving the report, and hearing the
declaration of the results of the canvass; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the senate and house of representatives sit in
joint session at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, for the
inauguration of the governor-elect and lieutenant governor-elect
of Texas as determined by the canvass of the votes; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That a joint committee, composed of five members of
the senate appointed by the lieutenant governor and five members of
the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house,
make arrangements for the joint session and oath-taking ceremony on
January 17, 2023; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Department of Public Safety of the State
of Texas is instructed to close all vehicle entrances to the Capitol
grounds beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday, January 16, 2023, and ending
at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, except for those
vehicles approved by the inaugural committee as necessary for use
in connection with the joint session and oath-taking ceremony and
the program following.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 6 was adopted by the Senate
on January 10, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.C.R. No. 6 was adopted by the House
on January 11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 149, Nays 0,
one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Received:
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Date
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Secretary of State