Bill Text: TX HJR72 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment permitting a person to hold more than one office as a municipal judge at the same time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2019-05-22 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR72 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR72-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment permitting a person to hold more than one office as a municipal judge at the same time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2019-05-22 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR72 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR72-Comm_Sub.html
| By: White (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) | H.J.R. No. 72 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 2019; | ||
| May 1, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
| Affairs; May 14, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment permitting a person to hold | ||
| more than one office as a municipal judge at the same time. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 40, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (c) of this | ||
| section, a person may hold more than one office as an elected or | ||
| appointed municipal judge in more than one municipality at the same | ||
| time. | ||
| 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 permitting a person to | ||
| hold more than one office as a municipal judge at the same time." | ||
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