Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-17 - Filed [SJR9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SJR9-Introduced.html
  85S10143 BEF-D
 
  By: Huffines S.J.R. No. 9
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a
  person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by
  adding Section 7a to read as follows:
         Sec. 7a.  (a)  A person is not eligible to be elected to the
  house of representatives if, before the date of the election, the
  person has served as a member of the house during all or part of six
  regular sessions of the legislature.
         (b)  A person is not eligible to be elected to the senate if,
  before the date of the election, the person has served as a member
  of the senate during all or part of six regular sessions of the
  legislature. This subsection does not prohibit a person who has
  served as a member of the senate during all or part of five regular
  sessions of the legislature from being elected to or serving a
  four-year term in the senate even though at the end of that term the
  person will have served during all or part of more than six regular
  sessions.
         (c)  Legislative service before the legislature convenes in
  regular session in 2019 is not counted in determining whether a
  person is disqualified from election to office under this section.
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017.
  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
  following proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to limit the
  time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature."
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