Texas Constitution:Article I, Section 7: Difference between revisions

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The Texas Attorney General, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/1973/jh0066.pdf H-66] (1973), opined at length on the constitutionality of the [http://www.collegeforalltexans.com/apps/financialaid/tofa2.cfm?ID=534 Tuition Equalization Grant Program.]
The Texas Attorney General, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/1973/jh0066.pdf H-66] (1973), opined at length on the constitutionality of the [http://www.collegeforalltexans.com/apps/financialaid/tofa2.cfm?ID=534 Tuition Equalization Grant Program.]


 
However, in Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. [https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2023/kp-0439.pdf KP-439] (2023), he recently opined that this section violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
Texas’s Blaine Amendments—article I, section 7, and article
VII, subsection 5(c) of the Texas Constitution—violate the Free  
Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution. Accordingly, any law, action, or policy implemented
in accordance with their prohibitions would be unconstitutional.  
 


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