By:  Leedom                                           S.J.R. No. 13
                                SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a
    1-2  person may serve in legislative office.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article III of the Texas Constitution is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 7a to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 7a.  (a)  A person is not eligible to be elected to the
    1-7  house of representatives if, before the date of the election, the
    1-8  person has served as a member of the house during all or part of
    1-9  the preceding six consecutive regular sessions of the legislature.
   1-10        (b)  A person is not eligible to be elected to the senate, if
   1-11  before the date of the election, the person has served as a member
   1-12  of the senate during all or part of the preceding six consecutive
   1-13  regular sessions of the legislature.  This subsection does not
   1-14  prohibit a person who has served as a member of the senate during
   1-15  all or part of five regular sessions of the legislature from being
   1-16  elected to or serving a four-year term in the senate even though at
   1-17  the end of that term the person will have served during all or part
   1-18  of more than six regular sessions.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Legislative service before the legislature
   1-20  convenes in regular session in 1997 is not counted in determining
   1-21  whether a person is disqualified from election to office under
   1-22  Section 1 of this resolution.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The proposed constitutional amendment shall be
    2-1  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 1995.
    2-2  The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against
    2-3  the following proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to limit
    2-4  the time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas
    2-5  Legislature."