HJR191 - 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.

  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."