By Shields                                            H.J.R. No. 86
       74R682 DRH-D
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a
    1-2  person may serve in an elective county or precinct office.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article V of the Texas Constitution is amended by
    1-5  adding Section 32 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 32.  (a)  This section applies only to the offices of a
    1-7  county judge established under Section 15 of this article, a county
    1-8  commissioner, a county clerk, a district clerk, a district and
    1-9  county clerk, a county attorney, a sheriff, a county treasurer, a
   1-10  county surveyor, a county tax assessor-collector, a justice of the
   1-11  peace, a constable, or an elective county office created by
   1-12  statute.
   1-13        (b)  A person is not eligible to serve a full or partial term
   1-14  in an office listed in Subsection (a) of this article if on
   1-15  December 31 of the last full calendar year of the term the person
   1-16  will have held that office during any part of each of 12 or more
   1-17  calendar years.
   1-18        (c)  Nothing in this section prohibits a person from
   1-19  continuing to serve in an office covered by this section after the
   1-20  end of a term as a holdover under Article XVI, Section 17, of this
   1-21  constitution or other law until a successor is qualified.
   1-22        (d)  For purposes of this section, a calendar year begins
   1-23  January 1 and ends December 31.
   1-24        (e)  Service in a county or precinct office for which there
    2-1  is more than one place or other distinguishing number is counted
    2-2  for purposes of determining whether a person is disqualified from
    2-3  serving under this section in any other place or numbered position
    2-4  for that office in that county or that precinct.
    2-5        (f)  Service in office during a term that begins before
    2-6  January 1, 1999, does not count for purposes of determining whether
    2-7  a person is disqualified from office under this section.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
    2-9  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 1995.
   2-10  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against
   2-11  the following proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to limit
   2-12  the time that a person may serve in an elective county or precinct
   2-13  office."