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A JOINT RESOLUTION
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proposing a constitutional amendment allowing recovery of |
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exemplary damages by a person's estate for a homicide. |
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 26, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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Sec. 26. Every person, corporation, or company, that may |
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commit a homicide, through wilful act, or omission, or gross |
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neglect, shall be responsible, in exemplary damages, to the |
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surviving husband, widow, heirs of the deceased person's [his or |
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her] body, [or] such of them as there may be, or the deceased |
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person's estate without regard to any criminal proceeding that may |
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or may not be had in relation to the homicide. |
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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 7, 2023. |
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The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the |
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proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing recovery of |
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exemplary damages by a person's estate for a homicide." |