Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas Legislature.

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90R3112 MLH-D

By: Reynolds
H.J.R. No. 55

A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the

legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas

Legislature.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by

adding Section 28B to read as follows:

Sec. 28B. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this

section, the legislature may not enact a bill that provides for an

apportionment or modification of senatorial or representative

districts at a time other than the time in which the legislature is

required to make an apportionment under Section 28 of this article.

(b) If a trial or appellate court or other governmental

agency with jurisdiction over the matter finds that one or more

districts in effect for or previously enacted or ordered for the

election of members of the legislature are invalid or takes any

action that has the effect of prohibiting this state from holding

elections in one or more of those districts, the legislature may

enact a bill described by Subsection (a) of this section relating to

the same legislative body in response to the finding or action,

except that the legislature may not enact a bill apportioning or

modifying districts of a house of the legislature during the period

the Legislative Redistricting Board has exclusive jurisdiction to

act on those districts under Section 28 of this article.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be

submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2027.

The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the

proposition: "The constitutional amendment to limit the time in

which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas

Legislature."