| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed August 6, 2021; August 7, 2021, read |
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| 3 | | - | first time and referred to Special Committee on Constitutional |
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| 4 | | - | Issues; August 9, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 6, Nays 0; August 9, 2021, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 10 | 6 | | proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination |
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| 11 | 7 | | of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives. |
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| 12 | 8 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 10, Article III, Texas Constitution, is |
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| 14 | 10 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 11 | | Sec. 10. A majority [Two-thirds] of the members of each |
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| 16 | 12 | | House of the Legislature shall constitute a quorum to do business, |
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| 17 | 13 | | but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the |
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| 18 | 14 | | attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such |
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| 19 | 15 | | penalties as each House may provide. |
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| 20 | 16 | | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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| 21 | 17 | | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2022. |
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| 22 | 18 | | The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the |
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| 23 | 19 | | proposition: "The constitutional amendment to provide that a |
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| 24 | 20 | | majority of the members of the senate or house of representatives of |
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| 25 | 21 | | the Texas Legislature constitutes a quorum for that house to do |
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| 26 | 22 | | business." |
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