Bill Text: TX SR36 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 1st Special Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Ordering Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr., Attorney General of the State of Texas, to appear before the Texas Senate at or before 9:00 a.m. on September 5, 2023.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-21 - Reported enrolled [SR36 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR36-Enrolled.html
By: Birdwell | S.R. No. 36 |
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WHEREAS, Articles of impeachment against Warren Kenneth | ||
Paxton Jr., Attorney General of the State of Texas, have been | ||
adopted by the House of Representatives of Texas and have been | ||
presented at the bar of the Senate with the request that the | ||
Senate hear and determine said charges of impeachment; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That said Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. be and is | ||
hereby notified of the fact of the presentment of said charges, | ||
and that said Attorney General Paxton be and is hereby notified | ||
that September 5, 2023, beginning at 9 a.m., has been set by the | ||
Senate as the time for beginning the hearing on said charges; | ||
and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That said Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. be and is | ||
hereby ordered to appear in person and by counsel at or before | ||
9 a.m. on September 5, 2023, in the City of Austin, State of | ||
Texas, at the Chamber of the Texas Senate, to answer the said | ||
charges of impeachment; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit or | ||
convey to said Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. a copy of this | ||
resolution and a copy of said articles of impeachment convening | ||
the Senate to sit as a court of impeachment. | ||
_______________________________ | ||
President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on June 21, 2023, by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 28, | ||
Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate |