Bill Text: TX HJR117 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for exempting this state from daylight saving time or observing daylight saving time year-round.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Received from the House [HJR117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR117-Engrossed.html
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By: Larson, Sheffield | H.J.R. No. 117 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide | ||
referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for exempting | ||
this state from daylight saving time or observing daylight saving | ||
time year-round. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 74 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 74. (a) The legislature by general law may: | ||
(1) hold a statewide referendum that allows the voters | ||
to indicate a preference for either: | ||
(A) exempting the state from daylight saving | ||
time; or | ||
(B) observing daylight saving time year-round; | ||
and | ||
(2) enact a law based on the results of the referendum | ||
exempting the state from daylight saving time or providing for | ||
observing daylight saving time year-round. | ||
(b) A statewide referendum described by Subsection (a) of | ||
this section that is held on the same day as the election on the | ||
constitutional amendment to add this section to this article is | ||
hereby validated. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2019. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the state | ||
to conduct a statewide referendum to allow the voters to choose | ||
between exempting the state from daylight saving time and observing | ||
daylight saving time year-round and authorizing the legislature to | ||
enact legislation that gives effect to the option preferred by a | ||
majority of the voters voting in the statewide referendum." |