Bill Text: TX SJR70 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right of parents to raise their children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-28 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR70 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR70-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right of parents to raise their children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-28 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR70 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SJR70-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes | S.J.R. No. 70 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2023; March 16, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 13, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1; April 13, 2023, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 70 | By: Paxton |
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proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right of | ||
parents to raise their children. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 36 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 36. (a) A parent has the inherent right to exercise | ||
care, custody, and control of the parent's child and to make | ||
decisions for the upbringing of the parent's child, including but | ||
not limited to decisions regarding the education, moral and | ||
religious training, and health care of the child. | ||
(b) The state or a political subdivision of this state shall | ||
not interfere with the rights of a parent described by Subsection | ||
(a) of this section unless the interference is: | ||
(1) essential to further a compelling governmental | ||
interest; and | ||
(2) narrowly tailored to accomplish that compelling | ||
governmental interest. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment establishing parents | ||
as the primary decision-makers for their children." | ||
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