Bill Text: TX HJR98 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature or as a statewide elected officer in the executive branch.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Left pending in committee [HJR98 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HJR98-Introduced.html
86R12362 BEF-D | ||
By: Biedermann | H.J.R. No. 98 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a | ||
person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature or as a | ||
statewide elected officer in the executive branch. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 7a to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7a. (a) A person is not eligible to be elected to the | ||
house of representatives if, before the date of the election, the | ||
person has served as a member of the house during all or part of six | ||
regular sessions of the legislature. | ||
(b) A person is not eligible to be elected to the senate if, | ||
before the date of the election, the person has served as a member | ||
of the senate during all or part of six regular sessions of the | ||
legislature. This subsection does not prohibit a person who has | ||
served as a member of the senate during all or part of five regular | ||
sessions of the legislature from being elected to or serving a | ||
four-year term in the senate even though at the end of that term the | ||
person will have served during all or part of more than six regular | ||
sessions. | ||
(c) Legislative service before the legislature convenes in | ||
regular session in 2021 is not counted in determining whether a | ||
person is disqualified from election to office under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Article IV, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
adding Section 2a to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2a. (a) A person is not eligible for election or | ||
appointment to an elective office listed in Section 1 of this | ||
article or to any other state office elected by the voters at a | ||
statewide election, other than a judicial office, if on the date of | ||
the election or appointment the person has served in that office | ||
during any part of each of 12 or more calendar years. | ||
(b) Nothing in this section prohibits a person from | ||
continuing to serve in an office covered by this section after the | ||
end of a term as a holdover under Section 17, Article XVI, of this | ||
constitution until a successor is qualified. | ||
(c) For purposes of this section, a calendar year begins | ||
January 1 and ends December 31. | ||
(d) Service in office before January 1, 2021, does not count | ||
for purposes of determining whether a person is disqualified from | ||
office under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 provide for voting for or against the | ||
following proposition: "The constitutional amendment to limit the | ||
time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature or | ||
as a statewide elected officer in the executive branch." |