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Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 32 (view source)
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The Republic of Texas constitution (1836) and each of the state's first four constitutions (1845, 1861, 1866, & 1869) contained a provision that required bills be "read" on three several days. In colonial assemblies, such requirements were literally complied with. In other words, bills were read in their entirety to the members in open session. But it appears that was never done in Texas. The long-accepted legislative practice in Texas has been to read only the bill's number, author, and part of its title. | |||
As adopted in 1876, this section read: "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." It has been amended once. | As adopted in 1876, this section read: "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." It has been amended once. | ||
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