Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HCR14 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	87R2673 CW-D
2	2	By: King of Parker H.C.R. No. 14
3	3
4	4
5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, Each member of the legislature has sworn a solemn
7	7	oath to defend our United States and Texas Constitutions and takes
8	8	great pride in being a citizen of the United States of America,
9	9	where citizens have the right to petition their government for
10	10	redress of grievances; and
11	11	WHEREAS, Section 1, Article I, Texas Constitution, states
12	12	that "the perpetuity of the Union depend[s] upon the preservation
13	13	of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the
14	14	States"; Section 2, Article I, declares, "All political power is
15	15	inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on
16	16	their authority, and instituted for their benefit. The faith of the
17	17	people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican
18	18	form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have
19	19	at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their
20	20	government in such manner as they may think expedient"; and
21	21	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
22	22	United States of America reads as follows: "The powers not
23	23	delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
24	24	by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
25	25	the people"; and
26	26	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
27	27	United States of America defines the total scope of federal power as
28	28	being that specifically granted by the U.S. Constitution and no
29	29	more; and
30	30	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
31	31	United States of America means that the federal government was
32	32	created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states with
33	33	powers both limited and enumerated; and
34	34	WHEREAS, Today, in 2021, the states are demonstrably treated
35	35	as agents of the federal government; and
36	36	WHEREAS, Many powers assumed by the federal government as
37	37	well as federal laws and mandates are in direct violation of the
38	38	Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of
39	39	America; and
40	40	WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of
41	41	the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union
42	42	of States, have always had rights that the federal government may
43	43	not usurp; and
44	44	WHEREAS, Section 4, Article IV, of the United States
45	45	Constitution says, "The United States shall guarantee to every
46	46	State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," and the Ninth
47	47	Amendment states, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain
48	48	rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained
49	49	by the people"; and
50	50	WHEREAS, The United States Supreme Court has ruled in New
51	51	York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992), that Congress may not
52	52	simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the
53	53	states; and
54	54	WHEREAS, A number of proposals from previous
55	55	administrations, as well as from Congress, may further violate the
56	56	Constitution of the United States of America; now, therefore, be it
57	57	RESOLVED, That the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas
58	58	hereby claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the
59	59	Constitution of the United States of America over all powers not
60	60	otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the
61	61	Constitution of the United States of America; and, be it further
62	62	RESOLVED, That this serve as notice and demand that the
63	63	federal government, as our agent, halt and reverse, effective
64	64	immediately, its practice of assuming powers and imposing mandates
65	65	and laws upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the
66	66	Constitution of the United States of America; and, be it further
67	67	RESOLVED, That all compulsory federal legislation not
68	68	necessary to ensure rights guaranteed the people under the
69	69	Constitution of the United States that directs states to comply
70	70	under threat of civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or that
71	71	requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be
72	72	prohibited and repealed; and, be it further
73	73	RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
74	74	copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
75	75	the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
76	76	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
77	77	of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
78	78	resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
79	79	memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.