By Driver                                             H.J.R. No. 66
         76R6593 SRC-D                           
                                 A JOINT RESOLUTION
 1-1     proposing a constitutional amendment to eliminate duplicative,
 1-2     executed, obsolete, archaic, and ineffective constitutional
 1-3     provisions.
 1-4           BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2.  The Senate shall consist of 31 [thirty-one]
 1-8     members[, and shall never be increased above this number].  The
 1-9     House of Representatives shall consist of 150 [ninety-three]
1-10     members [until the first apportionment after the adoption of this
1-11     Constitution, when or at any apportionment thereafter, the number
1-12     of Representatives may be increased by the Legislature, upon the
1-13     ratio of not more than one Representative for every fifteen
1-14     thousand inhabitants; provided, the number of Representatives shall
1-15     never exceed one hundred and fifty].
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 6, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, is
1-17     amended to read as follows:
1-18           Sec. 6.  No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in
1-19     pursuance of specific appropriations made by law; nor shall any
1-20     appropriation of money be made for a longer term than two years[,
1-21     except by the first Legislature to assemble under this
1-22     Constitution, which may make the necessary appropriations to carry
1-23     on the government until the assemblage of the sixteenth
1-24     Legislature].
 2-1           SECTION 3.  Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
 2-2     amended to read as follows:
 2-3           Sec. 39.  No law passed by the Legislature, except the
 2-4     general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until
 2-5     ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was
 2-6     enacted, unless [in case of an emergency, which emergency must be
 2-7     expressed in a preamble or in the body of the act,] the Legislature
 2-8     shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
 2-9     House, otherwise direct; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays,
2-10     and entered upon the journals.
2-11           SECTION 4.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
2-12     submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 1999.
2-13     The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against
2-14     the proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to eliminate
2-15     unnecessary or obsolete provisions of the Texas Constitution."