Bill Text: TX SJR62 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Administration [SJR62 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR62-Introduced.html
88R1089 BEF-D | ||
By: Birdwell | S.J.R. No. 62 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination | ||
of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 10, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 10. A majority [ |
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House of the Legislature shall constitute a quorum to do business, | ||
but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the | ||
attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such | ||
penalties as each House may provide. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to provide that a | ||
majority of the members of the senate or house of representatives of | ||
the Texas Legislature constitutes a quorum for that house to do | ||
business." |