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A JOINT RESOLUTION
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proposing a constitutional amendment providing that a person |
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holding a statewide elective office automatically vacates office on |
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announcing a candidacy or becoming a candidate for another elective |
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office before December 1 of the last full odd-numbered year of the |
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person's term of office. |
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by |
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adding Section 65-a to read as follows: |
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Sec. 65-a. If a person who holds a statewide elective office |
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announces the person's candidacy, or in fact becomes a candidate, |
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in any general, special, or primary election for any office of |
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profit or trust under the laws of this State or the United States |
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other than the office then held at any time before December 1 of the |
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last full odd-numbered year before the term of office then held |
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expires, that announcement or candidacy constitutes an automatic |
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resignation from the office then held. |
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SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. |
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The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the |
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proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that a person |
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holding a statewide elective office automatically vacates office on |
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announcing a candidacy or becoming a candidate for another elective |
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office before December 1 of the last full odd-numbered year of the |
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person's term of office." |