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| 1 | 1 | 86R2024 LED-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Hall S.J.R. No. 3 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A JOINT RESOLUTION | |
| 6 | 6 | proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life | |
| 7 | 7 | of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent | |
| 8 | 8 | authorized under federal constitutional law. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 19, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | Sec. 19. (a) No citizen of this State shall be deprived of | |
| 13 | 13 | life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or in any manner | |
| 14 | 14 | disfranchised, except by the due course of the law of the land. | |
| 15 | 15 | (b) The protections of this section with regard to the right | |
| 16 | 16 | to life apply to an unborn child. To the fullest extent authorized | |
| 17 | 17 | under federal constitutional law as interpreted by the United | |
| 18 | 18 | States Supreme Court, abortion is prohibited in this state. | |
| 19 | 19 | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | |
| 20 | 20 | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2019. | |
| 21 | 21 | The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | |
| 22 | 22 | proposition: "The constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right | |
| 23 | 23 | to life of unborn children and, to the fullest extent authorized | |
| 24 | 24 | under federal constitutional law as interpreted by the United | |
| 25 | 25 | States Supreme Court, prohibiting abortion." |