By: King of Parker, Chavez H.J.R. No. 127
        (Senate Sponsor - Carona)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2009;
  May 13, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; May 22, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
 
  proposing a constitutional amendment to allow an officer or
  enlisted member of the Texas State Guard or other state militia or
  military force 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, 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 officers and
  enlisted members of the Texas State Guard and any other active
  militia or military force organized under state law, 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, the Texas State Guard, and any other active militia or
  military force organized under state law, 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 3, 2009.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment to allow an officer or
  enlisted member of the Texas State Guard or other state militia or
  military force to hold other civil offices."
 
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