Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 51-c: Difference between revisions

* ''State v. Clements'', 319 S.W.2d 450, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2413660204882182745#p452 452] (Tex.Civ.App.–Texarkana 1958, ref'd) ("The expressed objectives of the amendment are to: (1) Make innocent persons fined or imprisoned for violating the law of Texas a subject of aid and compensation; (2) remove, as to the class of persons named in the amendment, the prohibition of Sec. 51, Art. III against granting funds to an individual; (3) empower enactment of such regulations and limitations the Legislature decides will promote the objective of aid and compensation to the class of persons named. From the section and article of the Constitution amended as well as the language used, no present right to aid and compensation is conferred upon the class of persons named independent of or without reference to the additional power at the same time vested in the Legislature. The right to receive aid and compensation is contingent upon action by the Legislature.")