By Talton                                             H.J.R. No. 93
       74R7063 JSA-F
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on
    1-2  state, district, and local elective offices.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by
    1-5  adding Section 29 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 29.  (a)  A person is not eligible to be elected to a
    1-7  full or partial term in any elective office under this state if on
    1-8  the date the term begins the person has served in that office
    1-9  during any part of each of 12 or more calendar years.
   1-10        (b)  For purposes of this section, service in more than one
   1-11  elective position on a governing body is considered service in the
   1-12  same office.  This subsection does not apply to ex officio service
   1-13  on a governing body.
   1-14        (c)  Nothing in this section prohibits a person from
   1-15  continuing to serve in an office covered by this section after the
   1-16  end of a term as a holdover under Section 17, Article XVI, of this
   1-17  constitution until a successor is qualified.
   1-18        (d)  For purposes of this section, a calendar year begins
   1-19  January 1 and ends December 31.
   1-20        (e)  Service in office before January 1, 1997, does not count
   1-21  for purposes of determining whether a person is disqualified from
   1-22  election to office under this section.
   1-23        (f)  This section does not prohibit the legislature by
   1-24  general law or a political subdivision of this state by charter,
    2-1  ordinance, order, or other appropriate means from imposing a more
    2-2  restrictive limit on the time or number of terms that a person may
    2-3  serve in an elective office.
    2-4        (g)  This section does not apply to an office for which
    2-5  another provision of this constitution imposes a limit on the time
    2-6  or number of terms that a person may serve in the office.
    2-7        (h)  In this section, "elective office under this state"
    2-8  means every state or district office or office of a political
    2-9  subdivision of this state that is filled by popular election.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
   2-11  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 1995.
   2-12  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
   2-13  following proposition: "The constitutional amendment to impose term
   2-14  limits on all state and local elective offices."