Bill Text: TX SJR27 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit this state or a political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or limiting religious services of religious organizations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 57-2)

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-19 - Filed with the Secretary of State [SJR27 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SJR27-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hancock, et al. S.J.R. No. 27
(In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2021; March 3, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 17, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; March 17, 2021,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 27 By: Birdwell

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit this state or a
political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or limiting
religious services of religious organizations.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by
adding Section 6-a to read as follows:
Sec. 6-a. This state or a political subdivision of this
state may not enact, adopt, or issue a statute, order,
proclamation, decision, or rule that prohibits or limits religious
services, including religious services conducted in churches,
congregations, and places of worship, in this state by a religious
organization established to support and serve the propagation of a
sincerely held religious belief.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to prohibit this state
or a political subdivision of this state from prohibiting or
limiting religious services of religious organizations."
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