Tex. Const. art. I, § 18 · Article 1. BILL OF RIGHTS
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
No person shall ever be imprisoned for debt.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 ad955abfa07fd8dd67c19fb7a28c5c59f75d555367941dd6080b2b1007dfd5ea
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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