By: Van de Putte S.J.R. No. 37
(Taylor of Collin)
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."