Bill Text: TX HJR132 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to life beginning at fertilization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR132 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HJR132-Introduced.html

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82R6734 YDB-D
By: Landtroop H.J.R. No. 132

A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to life
beginning at fertilization.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 19. (a) No citizen of this State shall be deprived of
life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner
disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land.
(b) The protections of this section regarding the right to
life apply from the point of fertilization, when genetic
information is gathered inside a cell, until death. The
protections of this article regarding the life of an unborn child
apply to the unborn child of any woman physically present in this
state.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2011.
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment protecting life from
the point of fertilization."