Bill Text: TX SJR49 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 49 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or a religious organization's free exercise of religion.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-24 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR49 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SJR49-Introduced.html



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



	SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
	proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or
	a religious organization's free exercise of religion.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 6, Article I, Texas Constitution, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 6. (a) All men have a natural and indefeasible right
	to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own
	consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support
	any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his
	consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control
	or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion,
	and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious
	society or mode of worship.
	(b) The government may not, directly, indirectly, or
	incidentally, substantially burden an individual's or a religious
	organization's conduct that is based on a sincerely held religious
	belief, unless the government is: (i) acting to further a
	compelling governmental interest, and (ii) using the least
	restrictive available means to do so.
	(c) But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such
	laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious
	denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public
	worship.
	SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
	submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011.
	The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
	proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to an
	individual's or a religious organization's free exercise of
	religion."