By: Carona S.J.R. No. 55
(In the Senate - Filed April 29, 2009; April 29, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Homeland
Security; May 11, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 5, Nays 2; May 11, 2009, sent to printer.)
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the holdover
provision of the Texas Constitution does not apply to a member of
the Texas Transportation Commission.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 17, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 17. (a) All officers within this State, other than a
member of the Texas Transportation Commission whose term has
expired, shall continue to perform the duties of their offices
until their successors shall be duly qualified.
(b) A member of the Texas Transportation Commission whose
term has expired may not continue to perform the duties of a member
of the commission, and a vacancy is created in the member's
position.
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 providing that the
holdover provision of the Texas Constitution does not apply to a
member of the Texas Transportation Commission."
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