78R2051 MXM-D

By:  Lindsay                                                    S.J.R. No. 14 



A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to allow election judges to 
hold other civil offices.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                       
	SECTION 1.  Section 40(a), Article XVI, Texas Constitution, 
is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  No person shall hold or exercise at the same time, more 
than one civil office of emolument, except that of Justice of the 
Peace, County Commissioner, Notary Public and Postmaster, election 
judge, Officer of the National Guard, the National Guard Reserve, 
and the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States and enlisted men 
of the National Guard, the National Guard Reserve, and the 
Organized Reserves of the United States, and retired officers of 
the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast 
Guard, and retired warrant officers, and retired enlisted men of 
the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast 
Guard, and the officers and directors of soil and water 
conservation districts, unless otherwise specially provided 
herein.  Provided, that nothing in this Constitution shall be 
construed to prohibit an officer or enlisted man of the National 
Guard, and the National Guard Reserve, or an officer in the Officers 
Reserve Corps of the United States, or an enlisted man in the 
Organized Reserves of the United States, or retired officers of the 
United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, 
and retired warrant officers, and retired enlisted men of the 
United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, 
and officers of the State soil and water conservation districts, 
from holding at the same time any other office or position of honor, 
trust or profit, under this State or the United States, or from 
voting at any election, general, special or primary in this State 
when otherwise qualified.
	SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be 
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2003.  
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the 
proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to allow election 
judges to hold other civil offices."