Bill Text: TX SJR35 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment clarifying that a voter must be a United States citizen.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal [SJR35 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR35-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Birdwell, et al. | S.J.R. No. 35 | |
| (Geren) | ||
| proposing a constitutional amendment clarifying that a voter must | ||
| be a United States citizen. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1(a), Article VI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The following classes of persons shall not be allowed to | ||
| vote in this State: | ||
| (1) persons under 18 years of age; | ||
| (2) persons who have been determined mentally | ||
| incompetent by a court, subject to such exceptions as the | ||
| Legislature may make; [ |
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| (3) persons convicted of any felony, subject to such | ||
| exceptions as the Legislature may make; and | ||
| (4) persons who are not citizens of the United States. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment clarifying that a voter | ||
| must be a United States citizen." | ||
