Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Joint Resolution 9 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governor to grant a pardon to a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-05-27 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SJR9-Enrolled.html



	S.J.R. No. 9



	proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governor to
	grant a pardon to a person who successfully completes a term of
	deferred adjudication community supervision.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 11, Article IV, Texas
	Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
	(b) In all criminal cases, except treason and impeachment,
	the Governor shall have power, after conviction or successful
	completion of a term of deferred adjudication community
	supervision, on the written signed recommendation and advice of the
	Board of Pardons and Paroles, or a majority thereof, to grant
	reprieves and commutations of punishment and pardons; and under
	such rules as the Legislature may prescribe, and upon the written
	recommendation and advice of a majority of the Board of Pardons and
	Paroles, he shall have the power to remit fines and forfeitures.
	The Governor shall have the power to grant one reprieve in any
	capital case for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days; and he
	shall have power to revoke conditional pardons. With the advice and
	consent of the Legislature, he may grant reprieves, commutations of
	punishment and pardons in cases of treason.
	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 permit voting for or against the
	proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the
	governor to grant a pardon to a person who successfully completes a
	term of deferred adjudication community supervision."





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 9 was adopted by the Senate
	on March 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.J.R. No. 9 was adopted by the House
	on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 7, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House