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."