By Keffer H.J.R. No. 70
76R8386 JSA-D
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1-1 proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the composition of
1-2 the Texas House of Representatives.
1-3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article III, Texas Constitution, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 2. (a) The Senate shall consist of 31 [thirty-one]
1-7 members[, and shall never be increased above this number].
1-8 (b) The House of Representatives shall consist of 150
1-9 [ninety-three] members until the first apportionment that occurs
1-10 after the publication of the federal decennial census for the year
1-11 2000. Beginning with that apportionment and at the first
1-12 apportionment that occurs after each federal decennial census
1-13 before the federal decennial census for the year 2100, five
1-14 additional members shall be elected to the House of Representatives
1-15 until the House consists of 200 members [after the adoption of this
1-16 Constitution, when or at any apportionment thereafter, the number
1-17 of Representatives may be increased by the Legislature, upon the
1-18 ratio of not more than one Representative for every fifteen
1-19 thousand inhabitants; provided, the number of Representatives
1-20 shall never exceed one hundred and fifty].
1-21 SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
1-22 submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 1999.
1-23 The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
1-24 proposition: "The constitutional amendment to gradually increase
2-1 the number of members of the Texas House of Representatives from
2-2 150 to 200."