Bill Text: TX SJR63 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to consider legislation on any subject during a special session.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Administration [SJR63 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SJR63-Introduced.html

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88R2411 MAW-D
By: Birdwell S.J.R. No. 63

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature
to consider legislation on any subject during a special session.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 40, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 40. (a) When the legislature is [Legislature shall be]
convened in a special session, the legislature may consider [there
shall be no] legislation on any subject, including the [upon]
subjects [other than those] designated in the proclamation of the
governor [Governor] calling the [such] session, or presented to the
legislature [them] by the governor.
(b) No special [Governor; and no such] session shall be of
longer duration than thirty days.
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 authorizing the
legislature to consider legislation on any subject during a special
session."