Bill Text: TX SJR49 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 49

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail for an illegal alien charged with an offense punishable as a felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SJR49 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SJR49-Introduced.html

	89R9073 LHC-F

	By: Huffman	S.J.R. No. 49



	A JOINT RESOLUTION
	proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail
	for an illegal alien charged with an offense punishable as a felony.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by
	adding Section 11e to read as follows:
	Sec. 11e. (a) In this section, "illegal alien" means a
	person who:
	(1) entered the United States without inspection or at
	any time or place other than as designated by the United States
	attorney general; or
	(2) was admitted as a nonimmigrant and, before the
	date of the commission of the offense, had failed to maintain the
	nonimmigrant status under which the alien was admitted or to which
	the status was changed under applicable federal immigration law, or
	to comply with the conditions of the person's status.
	(b) An illegal alien who is accused of committing an offense
	punishable as a felony shall be denied bail pending trial if a judge
	or magistrate determines after a hearing that probable cause exists
	to believe that the person engaged in the conduct constituting the
	offense.
	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 requiring the denial of
	bail for an illegal alien charged with an offense punishable as a
	felony."