Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1	85R107 EEY-D
2	2	By: Bell H.C.R. No. 29
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the United States
7	7	Constitution guarantees that "powers not delegated to the United
8	8	States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are
9	9	reserved to the states respectively, or to the people"; and
10	10	WHEREAS, The amendment, found within the Bill of Rights,
11	11	defines the balance of power between the federal government and the
12	12	states, authorizing the federal government to exercise only those
13	13	functions delegated to it within the Constitution; and
14	14	WHEREAS, In recent years, the federal government has
15	15	increasingly relied on presidential executive orders to dictate
16	16	policy while bypassing the demand for congressional consent; such
17	17	unilateral edicts not only circumvent the legislative process and
18	18	subvert our system of representative democracy, but also undermine
19	19	the constitutionally protected doctrine of states' rights; and
20	20	WHEREAS, The Texas Constitution affirms that Texas is a free
21	21	and independent state subject only to the supremacy of the U.S.
22	22	Constitution, and accordingly, neither the State of Texas nor its
23	23	people are bound by laws enacted outside the scope of authorized
24	24	executive power; now, therefore, be it
25	25	RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
26	26	hereby declare that presidential executive orders have no state
27	27	constitutional authority and cannot interfere with states' rights;
28	28	and, be it further
29	29	RESOLVED, That the 85th Texas Legislature hereby declare that
30	30	presidential executive orders are not state government mandates and
31	31	therefore should not and will not be treated as such by state
32	32	agencies; moreover, executive orders are not mandates that may
33	33	regulate the behavior or abrogate the rights and freedoms enjoyed
34	34	by Texas citizens; and, be it further
35	35	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward copies of
36	36	this resolution to the governor of the State of Texas, to the chairs
37	37	of all state regulatory boards, and to the executive directors of
38	38	all state executive agencies; and, be it further
39	39	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
40	40	copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
41	41	the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
42	42	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the
43	43	members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that
44	44	this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record
45	45	as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.