Bill Text: TX HJR20 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas Legislature or the United States House of Representatives.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-21 - Referred to Redistricting [HJR20 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HJR20-Introduced.html
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| By: Peña | H.J.R. No. 20 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the | ||
| legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas Legislature | ||
| or the United States House of Representatives. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 28A to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28A. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this | ||
| section, the legislature may not enact a bill that provides for an | ||
| apportionment or modification of senatorial or representative | ||
| districts at a time other than the time in which the legislature is | ||
| required to make an apportionment under Section 28 of this article. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, | ||
| the legislature may not enact a bill that provides for or modifies | ||
| the composition of districts for the election of members of the | ||
| United States House of Representatives at a time other than: | ||
| (1) the calendar year in which the federal decennial | ||
| census is released, if the census is released on or before September | ||
| 1; or | ||
| (2) a 120-day period beginning on the day the census is | ||
| released, if the census is released after September 1. | ||
| (c) If a trial or appellate court or other governmental | ||
| agency with jurisdiction over the matter finds that one or more | ||
| districts in effect for or previously enacted or ordered for the | ||
| election of members of the legislature or the United States House of | ||
| Representatives are invalid or takes any action that has the effect | ||
| of prohibiting this state from holding elections in one or more of | ||
| those districts, the legislature may enact a bill described by | ||
| Subsection (a) or (b) of this section, as appropriate, relating to | ||
| the same legislative body within one year after the date of the | ||
| court or agency action, except that the legislature may not enact a | ||
| bill apportioning or modifying districts of a house of the | ||
| legislature during the period the Legislative Redistricting Board | ||
| has exclusive jurisdiction to act on those districts under Section | ||
| 28 of this article. | ||
| 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 to limit the time in | ||
| which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas | ||
| Legislature or the United States House of Representatives." | ||
