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| 1 | 1 | By: Middleton S.J.R. No. 54 | |
| 2 | - | (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2023; March 3, 2023, | |
| 3 | - | read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | |
| 4 | - | March 30, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | |
| 5 | - | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; March 30, 2023, | |
| 6 | - | sent to printer.) | |
| 7 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 8 | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 54 By: Hughes | |
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| 11 | 4 | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION | |
| 12 | 5 | proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit a court from | |
| 13 | - | issuing an opinion without disclosing the | |
| 6 | + | issuing an opinion without disclosing the judge who authored the | |
| 14 | 7 | opinion. | |
| 15 | 8 | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 16 | 9 | SECTION 1. Article V, Texas Constitution, is amended by | |
| 17 | 10 | adding Section 1-b to read as follows: | |
| 18 | 11 | Sec. 1-b. The authorship of an opinion published by a court | |
| 19 | - | is public information. A court shall list the authors of any | |
| 20 | - | opinion published by the court. | |
| 12 | + | is public information. A court may not issue a per curiam decision. | |
| 21 | 13 | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | |
| 22 | 14 | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023. | |
| 23 | 15 | The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | |
| 24 | 16 | proposition: "The constitutional amendment to prohibit a court | |
| 25 | - | from issuing an opinion without disclosing the | |
| 17 | + | from issuing an opinion without disclosing the judge who authored | |
| 26 | 18 | the opinion." | |
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