Bill Text: TX SJR1 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-11 - Record vote [SJR1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SJR1-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Birdwell | S.J.R. No. 1 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed August 6, 2021; August 7, 2021, read | ||
| first time and referred to Special Committee on Constitutional | ||
| Issues; August 9, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 6, Nays 0; August 9, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination | ||
| of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 10, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 10. A majority [ |
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| House of the Legislature shall constitute a quorum to do business, | ||
| but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the | ||
| attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such | ||
| penalties as each House may provide. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2022. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment to provide that a | ||
| majority of the members of the senate or house of representatives of | ||
| the Texas Legislature constitutes a quorum for that house to do | ||
| business." | ||
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