By:  Leedom                                           S.J.R. No. 14
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a
    1-2  person may serve in certain executive offices.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article IV of the Texas Constitution is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 2a to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 2a.  (a)  No person shall be elected to an office listed
    1-7  in Section 1 of this article or to any other statewide office,
    1-8  other than a judicial office, more than twice, and no person who
    1-9  has held an office, or acted in that office, for more than half of
   1-10  the full term of that office may be elected to that office more
   1-11  than once.
   1-12        (b)  For purposes of this section, service in more than one
   1-13  elective position on the governing board of a state agency is
   1-14  considered service in the same office.  This subsection does not
   1-15  apply to ex officio service on a governing board.
   1-16        (c)  Nothing in this section prohibits a person from
   1-17  continuing to serve in an office covered by this section after the
   1-18  end of a term as a holdover under Article XVI, Section 17, of this
   1-19  constitution until a successor is qualified.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Service in office before January 1, 1997, does
   1-21  not count for purposes of determining whether a person is
   1-22  disqualified from office under this resolution.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This 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 an elected state officer in the
    2-5  executive branch."