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STATE CONSTITUTION
Article ill.-(Continued.)
apportioned to such county, and for any
surplus of population it may be joined in a
representative district with any other con-
tiguous county or counties.
Sec. 26-a. Provided, however, that no coun-
ty shall be entitled to or have under any
apportionment more than seven (7) Repre-
sentatives unless the population of such
county shall exceed seven hundiced thousand
(700,000) people as asceitained by the most
recent United States census, in which event
such county shall be entitled to one addi-
tional Representative for each one hundred
thousand (100,000) population in excess of
seven hundred thousand (700.000) population
as shown by the latest United States census,
nor shall any district be created w hich
would permit any county to have more than
seven (7) Representatives except under the
conditions set forth above.
[Note -See 26-a of Art III is an added amend-
ment, to place limitation on representation of
counties with large population Adopted in elec-
tion Nov. 3, 1936 ]
Sec 27. Election of Members.-Elections
for Senators and Representatives shall be
general throughout the State, and shall be
regulated by law.
Sec. 28. Reapportionment at Each Census.-
The Legislature shall, at its first session
after the publication of each United States
decennial census, apportion the State into
senatorial and representative districts, agree-
ably to the provisions of Sees. 25 and 26 of
this article, and until the next decennial
census, when the first apportionment shall
be made by the Legislature, the State shall
be, and it is hereby, divided into senatorial
and representative districts as provided by
an ordinance of the convention on that
subject.
Proceedings.
Sec. 29. Enacting Clause.-The enacting
clause of all laws shall be. "Be it enacted by
the Legislature of the State of Texas "
Sec. 30. Laws to Be Passed by Bill: Amend-
ments.-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. Bills May Originate in Either
House and May Be Amended or Rejected by
the Other House.-Bills may originate in
either house, and when passed by such house
may be amended, altered or rejected by the
other.
Sec. 32. Bills to Be Read 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 in cases of
imperative public necessity (which necessity
shall be stated in a preamble or in the body
of the bill) 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.
Sec. 33. Bills for Raising Revenue.-All
bills for raising revenue shall originate in
the House of Representatives, but the Senate
may amend or reject them as other bills.
Sec. 34. Bill or Resolution Defeated, Not
to Be Considered Again.-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 resolu-
tion containing the same substance shall be
considered at the same session.
Sec. 35. Blls to Contain but One Subject,
Which Must Be Expressed in Title.-No bill
(except general appropriation bills, which
may embrace the various subjects and ac-counts for and on account of which moneys
are appropriated) shall contain more than
one subject, which shall be expressed in its
title But if any subject shall be embraced
in an act w hich shall not be expressed in the
title such act shall be void only as to so
much thereof as shall not be so expressed
Sec 36. Reviving or Amending Laws.-No
Law shall be iev ied or amended by refei-
cnce to Its titlc, but a such cae the act
leised, or the section oi sections amended.
shall be re-enacted and published at length
Sec. 37. Reference to Committees.-No bill
shall be considered unless it has been first
referred to a committee and reported there
on, and no bill shall be passed which has
not been presented and referred to and re-
poited from a committee at least three days
before the final adjournment of the Legisla-
ture.
Sec 38 Signing Bills.-The presiding offi-
cer of each house shall, in the presence of
the house over hich he presides sign all
bills and jont resolutions pas.;ed by the
Legislature, after thenl I ties hae been pub-
licly lead before sign ng, and the fact of
signing shall be entei ed on the journals
Sec 39. When Laws Take Effect.-No law
passed by the Legislatuie, except the gen-
eral appropriation act, shall take effect or
go Into force until ninety days after the
adjournment of the session at which it was
enacted, unless in case of an emergency
which emergency must be expressed in a
preamble or in the body of the act. the
Legislature shall, by a ote of two thirds of
all the member s elected to each house. oth-
erwise diiect, said ote to be taken by
yeas and nays. and enter ed upon the journals
See 40 Business and Duration of Special
Sessions.-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 Go -
ernor calling such session or presented to
them by the Governor, and no such session
snall be of longer duration than thirty days
Sec 41. Elections: Votes, How Taken.-In
all elections by the Senate and House of
Representatives, jointly or separately the
vote shall be given vi a vore, except in the
election of their officers
Requirements and Limitations.
Sec. 42. To Pass Necessary Laws.-The
Legislature shall pass such laws as may be
necessary to carry into effect the provisions
of this Constitution.
Sec. 43. Revision and Publication of Laws.
-The first session of the Legislature under
this Constitution shall provide for revising.
digesting and publishing the laws. civiI and
criminal; and a like revision, digest and
publication may be made every ten years
thereafter, provided, that in the adoption
of and giving effect to any such digest oi
revision the Legislature shall not be limited
by Secs 35 and 36 of this article.
See. 44. Compensation of Officers: Pay-
ment of Claims.-The Legislature shall pro-
'ide by law for the compensation of all
officers, servants, agents and public contrac-
tors, not provided for in this Constitut.on
but shall not grant extra compensation to
any officer, agent, servant or public contrac-
tors, after such public service shall have
been performed or contact 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.-The power to
change the venue In civil and criminal cases
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