88R14568 BEF-D
By: Wilson H.J.R. No. 200
A JOINT RESOLUTION
ratifying a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United
States relating to the number of representatives in the United
States House of Representatives.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Texas, pursuant
to Article V of the United States Constitution, does hereby ratify
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by
resolution of the First Congress of the United States in New York,
New York, on September 25, 1789, which reads as follows:
"RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both
Houses concurring, that the following [Article] be proposed to the
Legislatures of the several States, . . . which [Article], when
ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to
all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
"[An ARTICLE] in addition to, and Amendment of the
Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress,
and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to
the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
"Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required
by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one
Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall
amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so
regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred
Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty
thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount
to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by
Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred
Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty
thousand persons."
SECTION 2. The Legislature of the State of Texas finds that
the above-quoted article of amendment to the United States
Constitution may still be ratified by the state legislatures in the
same manner as the Twenty-seventh Amendment.
SECTION 3. The secretary of state of this state shall:
(1) notify the archivist of the United States of the
action of the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular
Session, 2023, by sending the archivist a copy of this resolution;
(2) send copies of this resolution to the United
States senators and representatives from Texas, to the vice
president of the United States, and to the speaker of the United
States House of Representatives with the request that it be printed
in full in the Congressional Record; and
(3) send copies of this resolution to the presiding
officers of the legislatures of the states that have not yet
ratified the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution.