Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-05-27 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SJR9-Comm_Sub.html
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.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-05-27 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SJR9-Comm_Sub.html
By: West | S.J.R. No. 9 | |
(Thompson, Gallego) | ||
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." |