Bill Text: TX SJR58 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit a person from being placed on a ballot as a candidate for public office if the person has an outstanding financial obligation payable to the Texas Ethics Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-21 - Committee report printed and distributed [SJR58 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SJR58-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Campbell | S.J.R. No. 58 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2021; March 24, 2021, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
| May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
| Nays 1; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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| proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit a person from | ||
| being placed on a ballot as a candidate for public office if the | ||
| person has an outstanding financial obligation payable to the Texas | ||
| Ethics Commission. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 2-a to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
| constitution, a person is ineligible to be placed on a ballot as a | ||
| candidate for public office if on the date the person files to be | ||
| placed on the ballot the person has an outstanding financial | ||
| obligation payable to the Texas Ethics Commission. | ||
| SECTION 2. The following temporary provision is added to | ||
| the Texas Constitution: | ||
| TEMPORARY PROVISION. (a) This temporary provision applies | ||
| to the constitutional amendment proposed by the 87th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2021, to prohibit a person from being placed on a | ||
| ballot as a candidate for public office if the person has an | ||
| outstanding financial obligation payable to the Texas Ethics | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (b) Section 2-a, Article XVI, of this constitution takes | ||
| effect January 1, 2022, and applies only to an election the filing | ||
| period for which begins on or after that date. | ||
| (c) This temporary provision expires January 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment prohibiting a person | ||
| from being placed on a ballot as a candidate for public office if | ||
| the person has an outstanding financial obligation payable to the | ||
| Texas Ethics Commission." | ||
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