Bill Text: TX SJR36 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and contributions to purchase such items.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-01-28 - Committee report printed and distributed [SJR36 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SJR36-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hall | S.J.R. No. 36 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2025; January 22, 2025, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Administration; | ||
| January 28, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 6, Nays 0; January 28, 2025, sent to printer.) | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations | ||
| for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of | ||
| historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to | ||
| accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and | ||
| contributions to purchase such items. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 39. The Legislature may, from time to time, make | ||
| appropriations for preserving and perpetuating memorials of the | ||
| history of Texas, by means of monuments, statues, paintings, films, | ||
| videotapes, audiotapes, computer files or other electronic storage | ||
| media, and documents of historical value. The Legislature or an | ||
| agency of the state may accept on behalf of the state gifts of items | ||
| of historical value and contributions to purchase items of | ||
| historical value. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing the | ||
| legislature to make appropriations for preserving and perpetuating | ||
| certain items of historical value and allowing the legislature and | ||
| state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of | ||
| historical value and contributions to preserve and perpetuate such | ||
| items." | ||
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