Bill Text: TX SJR61 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting temporary suspension of absentee voting procedures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-26 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SJR61 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SJR61-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Campbell, et al. S.J.R. No. 61
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 21, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 2, one present not
voting; April 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 61 By: Campbell

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting temporary
suspension of absentee voting procedures.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2, Article VI, Texas Constitution, is
amended by adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
(d) The qualifications for absentee voting and procedures
for conducting absentee voting may not be amended or suspended
except by specific law passed by the Legislature.
(e) A law passed by the Legislature granting the governor
general authority to suspend provisions of statute or rules of a
state agency does not grant the governor authority to amend or
suspend the qualifications for absentee voting or the procedures
for conducting absentee voting unless the law expressly provides
otherwise.
(f) A law passed by the Legislature granting a presiding
officer of the governing body of a political subdivision general
authority to declare a local state of disaster does not grant the
presiding officer authority to amend or suspend the qualifications
for absentee voting or the procedures for conducting absentee
voting unless the law expressly provides otherwise.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting temporary
suspension of absentee voting procedures."
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