Bill Text: TX SJR37 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment clarifying that a voter must be a United States citizen.

Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2025-05-15 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR37 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SJR37-Enrolled.html

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S.J.R. No. 37

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; [and]
(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 4, 2025.
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."
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 37 was adopted by the Senate
on April 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 37 was adopted by the House
on May 12, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 102, Nays 14,
twenty-two 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