Bill Text: TX HJR135 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or a religious organization's freedom of religion.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 64-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-13 - Reason for vote recorded in Journal [HJR135 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HJR135-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Phillips, Callegari, Hancock, Fletcher, | H.J.R. No. 135 | ||
| Aliseda, et al. | |||
| Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 135: | |||
| By: Cook | C.S.H.J.R. No. 135 | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or | ||
| a religious organization's freedom of religion. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 6, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 6. (a) All men have a natural and indefeasible right | ||
| to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own | ||
| consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support | ||
| any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his | ||
| consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control | ||
| or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion, | ||
| and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious | ||
| society or mode of worship. | ||
| (b) Government may not, directly, indirectly, or | ||
| incidentally, substantially burden an individual's or a religious | ||
| organization's conduct that is based on a sincerely held religious | ||
| belief, unless the government is: | ||
| (1) acting to further a compelling governmental | ||
| interest; and | ||
| (2) using the least restrictive available means to do | ||
| so. | ||
| (c) But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such | ||
| laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious | ||
| denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public | ||
| worship. | ||
| 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 provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to an | ||
| individual's or a religious organization's freedom of religion." | ||
