THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. Texas

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СКАЧАТЬ TRANSITION PROVISION for Sec. 28: See Appendix, Note 3.)

      Sec. 29. ENACTING CLAUSE OF LAWS.

      The enacting clause of all laws shall be: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas."

      Sec. 30. LAWS PASSED BY BILL; AMENDMENTS CHANGING PURPOSE.

      No law shall be passed, except by bill, and no bill shall be so amended in its passage through either House, as to change its original purpose.

      Sec. 31. ORIGINATION IN EITHER HOUSE; AMENDMENT.

      Bills may originate in either House, and, when passed by such House, may be amended, altered or rejected by the other.

      Sec. 32. READING ON THREE SEVERAL DAYS; SUSPENSION OF RULE.

      No bill shall have the force of a law, until it has been read on three several days in each House, and free discussion allowed thereon; but four-fifths of the House, in which the bill may be pending, may suspend this rule, the yeas and nays being taken on the question of suspension, and entered upon the journals.

      (Amended Nov. 2, 1999.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS for Sec. 32: See Appendix, Note 1.)

      Sec. 33. REVENUE BILLS.

      All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.

      (Amended Nov. 2, 1999.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS for Sec. 33: See Appendix, Note 1.)

      Sec. 34. DEFEATED BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.

      After a bill has been considered and defeated by either House of the Legislature, no bill containing the same substance, shall be passed into a law during the same session. After a resolution has been acted on and defeated, no resolution containing the same substance, shall be considered at the same session.

      Sec. 35. SUBJECTS AND TITLES OF BILLS.

      (a) No bill, (except general appropriation bills, which may embrace the various subjects and accounts, for and on account of which moneys are appropriated) shall contain more than one subject.

      (b) The rules of procedure of each house shall require that the subject of each bill be expressed in its title in a manner that gives the legislature and the public reasonable notice of that subject.

      The legislature is solely responsible for determining compliance with the rule.

      (c) A law, including a law enacted before the effective date of this subsection, may not be held void on the basis of an insufficient title.

      (Subsec. (a) amended and (b) and (c) added Nov. 4, 1986.)

      Sec. 36. REVIVAL OR AMENDMENT BY REFERENCE; RE-ENACTMENT AND PUBLICATION AT LENGTH.

      No law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title; but in such case the act revived, or the section or sections amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length.

      Sec. 37. REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE AND REPORT.

      No bill shall be considered, unless it has been first referred to a committee and reported thereon, and no bill shall be passed which has not been presented and referred to and reported from a committee at least three days before the final adjournment of the Legislature.

      Sec. 38. SIGNING BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS; ENTRY ON JOURNALS.

      The presiding officer of each House shall, in the presence of the House over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature, after their titles have been publicly read before signing; and the fact of signing shall be entered on the journals.

      Sec. 39. TIME OF TAKING EFFECT OF LAWS; EMERGENCIES; ENTRY ON JOURNAL.

      No law passed by the Legislature, except the general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journals.

      (Amended Nov. 2, 1999.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS for Sec. 39: See Appendix, Note 1.)

      Sec. 40. SPECIAL SESSIONS; SUBJECTS OF LEGISLATION; DURATION.

      When the Legislature shall be convened in special session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor calling such session, or presented to them by the Governor; and no such session shall be of longer duration than thirty days.

      Sec. 41. ELECTIONS BY SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

      In all elections by the Senate and House of Representatives, jointly or separately, the vote shall be given viva voce, except in the election of their officers.

      Sec. 42. (Repealed Aug. 5, 1969.)

      Sec. 43. REVISION OF LAWS.

      (a) The Legislature shall provide for revising, digesting and publishing the laws, civil and criminal, provided, that in the adoption of and giving effect to any such digest or revision, the Legislature shall not be limited by sections 35 and 36 of this Article.

      (b) In this section, "revision" includes a revision of the statutes on a particular subject and any enactment having the purpose, declared in the enactment, of codifying without substantive change statutes that individually relate to different subjects.

      (Subsec. (a) amended and (b) added Nov. 4, 1986.)

      Sec. 44. COMPENSATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS, SERVANTS, AGENTS, AND CONTRACTORS; EXTRA COMPENSATION; UNAUTHORIZED CLAIMS; UNAUTHORIZED EMPLOYMENT.

      The Legislature shall provide by law for the compensation of all officers, servants, agents and public contractors, not provided for in this Constitution, but shall not grant extra compensation to any officer, agent, servant, or public contractors, after such public service shall have been performed or contract entered into, for the performance of the same; nor grant, by appropriation or otherwise, any amount of money out of the Treasury of the State, to any individual, on a claim, real or pretended, when the same shall not have been provided for by pre-existing law; nor employ any one in the name of the State, unless authorized by pre-existing law.

      Sec. 45. CHANGE OF VENUE IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES.

      The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases shall be vested in the courts, to be exercised in such manner as shall be provided by law; and the Legislature shall pass laws for that purpose.

      Sec. 46. UNIFORMITY IN COLLECTION OF FEES.

      (a) In this section, "fee" means a fee in a criminal or civil matter all or a portion of which is required to be collected by local officers, clerks, or other local personnel and remitted to the comptroller of public accounts for deposit in the manner provided for in the law imposing the fee.

      (b) This section applies only if the legislature enacts by law a program to consolidate and standardize the collection, deposit, reporting, and remitting of fees.

      (c) A fee imposed by the legislature СКАЧАТЬ