Bill Text: TX HJR135 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or a religious organization's freedom of religion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 64-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-13 - Reason for vote recorded in Journal [HJR135 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HJR135-Comm_Sub.html
  82R20658 TJS-F
 
  By: Phillips, Callegari, Hancock, Fletcher, H.J.R. No. 135
      Aliseda, et al.
 
  Substitute the following for H.J.R. No. 135:
 
  By:  Cook C.S.H.J.R. No. 135
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment relating to an individual's or
  a religious organization's freedom of religion.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 6, Article I, Texas Constitution, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 6.  (a) All men have a natural and indefeasible right
  to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own
  consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support
  any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his
  consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control
  or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion,
  and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious
  society or mode of worship.
         (b)  Government may not, directly, indirectly, or
  incidentally, substantially burden an individual's or a religious
  organization's conduct that is based on a sincerely held religious
  belief, unless the government is:
               (1)  acting to further a compelling governmental
  interest; and
               (2)  using the least restrictive available means to do
  so.
         (c)  But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such
  laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious
  denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public
  worship.
         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 relating to an
  individual's or a religious organization's freedom of religion."
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