Article III, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution ("Membership of Senate and House of Representatives")

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As amended November 2, 1999:

The Senate shall consist of thirty-one members. The House of Representatives shall consist of 150 members.

Editor Comments

In 1965, an amendment increasing the Senate to thirty-nine members was defeated with 61% voting against it.

The section has been amended once. The 1999 modification was part of a "constitutional cleanup amendment."

Attorney Steve Smith

Recent Decisions

None.

Historic Decisions

  • Ferguson v. Wilcox, 28 S.W.2d 526, 534 (Tex. 1930) ("[T]he Senate in the trial and conviction of relator acted as a court, and not as a part of the Legislature. Those powers were given to it expressly by the Constitution. Its judgment of removal and disqualification was the judgment of a court. Constitution, art. 15, §§ 3 and 4; Ferguson v. Maddox, supra; Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168 []; Beall v. Beall, 8 Ga. 210, 228. By the plain provisions of article 2, § 1, no other department could exercise any power properly attached to it, and no other power, without an express provision of the Constitution authorizing it, could render its judgment of disqualification nugatory.")

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