83R10248 BEF-D
By: Hilderbran H.J.R. No. 150
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment to require a person to be a
resident of this state for five years preceding the person's
election to the Texas House of Representatives.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 7. No person shall be a Representative[,] unless the
person is [he be] a citizen of the United States, and, at the time of
[his] election as a Representative, a qualified voter of this
State, and shall have been a resident of this State five [two] years
next preceding the [his] election, the last year thereof a resident
of the district for which the person [he] shall be chosen, and shall
have attained the age of twenty-one years.
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013.
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring a person to be
a resident of this state for five years preceding the person's
election to the Texas House of Representatives."