By: Patrick S.J.R. No. 4
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. Section 65(b), 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 year and 60 [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. 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 provide for 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."