Bill Text: TX SJR27 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment repealing county authority to provide for manual labor poor houses and farms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SJR27 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR27-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment repealing county authority to provide for manual labor poor houses and farms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SJR27 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR27-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor of Collin | S.J.R. No. 27 | |
(In the Senate - Filed December 19, 2016; January 30, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
Relations; March 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 22, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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proposing a constitutional amendment repealing county authority to | ||
provide for manual labor poor houses and farms. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 14, Article IX, Texas Constitution, is | ||
repealed. | ||
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 permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment repealing county | ||
authority to provide for manual labor poor houses and farms." | ||
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