Bill Text: TX SJR9 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-17 - Filed [SJR9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR9-Introduced.html
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| By: Huffines | S.J.R. No. 9 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a | ||
| person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 7a to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 7a. (a) A person is not eligible to be elected to the | ||
| house of representatives if, before the date of the election, the | ||
| person has served as a member of the house during all or part of six | ||
| regular sessions of the legislature. | ||
| (b) A person is not eligible to be elected to the senate if, | ||
| before the date of the election, the person has served as a member | ||
| of the senate during all or part of six regular sessions of the | ||
| legislature. This subsection does not prohibit a person who has | ||
| served as a member of the senate during all or part of five regular | ||
| sessions of the legislature from being elected to or serving a | ||
| four-year term in the senate even though at the end of that term the | ||
| person will have served during all or part of more than six regular | ||
| sessions. | ||
| (c) Legislative service before the legislature convenes in | ||
| regular session in 2019 is not counted in determining whether a | ||
| person is disqualified from election to office under this section. | ||
| 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 provide for voting for or against the | ||
| following proposition: "The constitutional amendment to limit the | ||
| time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature." | ||
