89R14672 MPF-D
By: Shaheen H.J.R. No. 191
A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing a constitutional amendment requiring automatic
resignation of a city council member or member of the board of
trustees of a school district who becomes a candidate for the
legislature or the United States Congress.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11, Article XI, Texas Constitution, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A city council member serving any length of term of
office is subject to Section 65(b), Article XVI, of this
constitution, in the same manner as a county or district officer to
which that section applies, if the member announces the member's
candidacy in an election for the Texas Senate, Texas House of
Representatives, or United States Congress.
SECTION 2. Section 65, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 65. (a) This section applies to the following
offices: District Clerks; County Clerks; County Judges; Judges of
the County Courts at Law, County Criminal Courts, County Probate
Courts and County Domestic Relations Courts; County Treasurers;
Criminal District Attorneys; County Surveyors; County
Commissioners; Justices of the Peace; Sheriffs; Assessors and
Collectors of Taxes; District Attorneys; County Attorneys; Public
Weighers; [and] Constables; and Members of the Board of Trustees of
a School District.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, if
[If] any of the officers named herein shall announce their
candidacy, or shall in fact become a candidate, in any General,
Special or Primary Election, for any office of profit or trust under
the laws of this State or the United States other than the office
then held, at any time when the unexpired term of the office then
held shall exceed one year and 30 days, such announcement or such
candidacy shall constitute an automatic resignation of the office
then held, and the vacancy thereby created shall be filled pursuant
to law in the same manner as other vacancies for such office are
filled.
(c) A member of the board of trustees of a school district is
only subject to Subsection (b) of this section if the member
announces the member's candidacy in an election for the Texas
Senate, Texas House of Representatives, or United States Congress.
SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
proposition: "The constitutional amendment requiring automatic
resignation of a city council member or member of the board of
trustees of a school district who becomes a candidate for the
legislature or the United States Congress."