By: Van de Putte S.J.R. No. 37
 
 
  SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
 
 
 
  proposing a constitutional amendment to change the length of the
  unexpired term that causes the automatic resignation of certain
  elected county or district officeholders if they become candidates
  for another office.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 65, Article XVI, Texas
  Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  If any of the officers named herein shall announce their
  candidacy, or shall in fact become a candidate, in any General,
  Special or Primary Election, for any office of profit or trust under
  the laws of this State or the United States other than the office
  then held, at any time when the unexpired term of the office then
  held shall exceed one [(1)] year and 30 days, such announcement or
  such candidacy shall constitute an automatic resignation of the
  office then held, and the vacancy thereby created shall be filled
  pursuant to law in the same manner as other vacancies for such
  office are filled.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  This proposed constitutional amendment
  shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November
  8, 2011, only if the secretary of state certifies that an enactment
  of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, that became law provides
  for a filing deadline for an application for a place on the general
  primary ballot that occurs in the calendar year before the year in
  which the primary is held.  If the secretary of state does not make a
  certification under this subsection, this resolution has no effect.
         (b)  If the election on this amendment is held, the ballot
  shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition:
  "The constitutional amendment to change the length of the unexpired
  term that causes the automatic resignation of certain elected
  county or district officeholders if they become candidates for
  another office."