Bill Text: TX HJR133 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to set a minimum amount of monetary bond for persons charged with stalking or an offense involving family violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HJR133 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HJR133-Introduced.html
| 88R11647 JRR-D | ||
| By: Landgraf | H.J.R. No. 133 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature | ||
| to set a minimum amount of monetary bond for persons charged with | ||
| stalking or an offense involving family violence. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11. (a) All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient | ||
| sureties, unless for capital offenses [ |
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| evident; but this provision shall not be so construed as to prevent | ||
| bail after indictment found upon examination of the evidence, in | ||
| such manner as may be prescribed by law. | ||
| (b) The legislature by general law may set a minimum amount | ||
| of monetary bail that must be imposed in a case in which a person is | ||
| accused of committing the offense of stalking or an offense | ||
| involving family violence, as defined by the legislature. | ||
| 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 authorizing the | ||
| legislature to set a minimum amount of monetary bond for persons | ||
| charged with stalking or an offense involving family violence." | ||
