Legislative Research: TX HJR59 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

Texas House Joint Resolution 59

Other Sessions

Session	Title/Description	Last Action
2023-2024 88th Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment. [HJR59 2023 Detail][HJR59 2023 Text][HJR59 2023 Comments]	2023-02-28 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence
2021-2022 87th Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict the Texas Legislature and Texas congressional districts and revising procedures for redistricting. [HJR59 2021 Detail][HJR59 2021 Text][HJR59 2021 Comments]	2021-04-20 Left pending in committee
2019-2020 86th Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict the Texas Legislature and Texas congressional districts and revising procedures for redistricting. [HJR59 2019 Detail][HJR59 2019 Text][HJR59 2019 Comments]	2019-04-04 Left pending in committee
2017-2018 85th Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming by executing a gaming agreement with this state; providing for licensing of persons under the agreement; limiting certain taxes and fees. [HJR59 2017 Detail][HJR59 2017 Text][HJR59 2017 Comments]	2017-03-22 Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures
2015-2016 84th Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment to dedicate net revenue from the state lottery to support educational programs that benefit classroom teaching in the state's public schools and to prohibit certain lottery advertisements and promotions. [HJR59 2015 Detail][HJR59 2015 Text][HJR59 2015 Comments]	2015-02-26 Referred to Appropriations
2013-2014 83rd Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the rights of individuals to choose or decline to choose health insurance coverage. [HJR59 2013 Detail][HJR59 2013 Text][HJR59 2013 Comments]	2013-04-25 Committee report sent to Calendars
2011-2012 82nd Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring certain tax bills to be approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the legislature. [HJR59 2011 Detail][HJR59 2011 Text][HJR59 2011 Comments]	2011-05-02 Left pending in committee
2009-2010 81st Legislature (Introduced - Dead)	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt a percentage of the market value of the residence homesteads of certain partially disabled veterans from ad valorem taxation. [HJR59 2009 Detail][HJR59 2009 Text][HJR59 2009 Comments]	2009-03-18 Left pending in committee

References Online

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[Texas HJR59]	Google Web	Google News
[Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee]	Google Web	Google News	FollowTheMoney
[Representative Joseph Moody TX]	Google Web	Google News	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

Legislative Citation

APA

TX HJR59 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature. (2023, February 28). LegiScan. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR59/2023

MLA

"TX HJR59 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature." LegiScan. LegiScan LLC, 28 Feb. 2023. Web. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR59/2023>.

Chicago

"TX HJR59 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature." February 28, 2023 LegiScan. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR59/2023.

Turabian

LegiScan. TX HJR59 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature. 28 February 2023. https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HJR59/2023 (accessed April 25, 2024).

Subjects

Courts
Courts--General
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Procedure--General
Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment
Resolutions
Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments

Same As/Similar To

Bill	Relationship	Date	Title	Last Action
HB909	Enabled by	2023-04-04	Relating to the authority of a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.	Left pending in committee
HJR172	Same As	2023-05-15	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.	Referred to State Affairs
HJR172	Same As	2023-05-15	Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.	Referred to State Affairs