HJR149 - Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing an impeached officer to continue in office pending the impeachment trial.

  89R12745 MAW-D     By: Lowe H.J.R. No. 149       A JOINT RESOLUTION   proposing a constitutional amendment allowing an impeached officer   to continue in office pending the impeachment trial.          BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 5, Article XV, Texas Constitution, is   amended to read as follows:          Sec. 5.  All officers against whom articles of impeachment   may be preferred are entitled to continue to [ shall be suspended   from the ] exercise [ of ] the duties of their office, during the   pendency of such impeachment.  [ The Governor may make a provisional   appointment to fill the vacancy, occasioned by the suspension of an   officer until the decision on the impeachment. ]          SECTION 2.  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 permit voting for or against the   proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing an impeached   officer to continue in office pending the impeachment trial."