Bill Text: TX SCR6 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-24 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SCR6 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR6-Enrolled.html
S.C.R. No. 6 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
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. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Received: | ||
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Date | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of State |