Tex. Const. art. III, § 11 · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
RULES OF PROCEDURE; PUNISHMENT OR EXPULSION OF MEMBER.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
Each House may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish members for disorderly conduct, and, with the consent of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same offence†.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876.)
Publisher's footnote
† The language of this provision is identical to the language of the official legislative measure that originally proposed the provision. A digital image of the original text of the official enrolled measure can be found here.
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.3.htm
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- sha256 31840c11976499ecfeb565e010ea44bdab8b18efd9a9893f7bdcf73943ff57ab
- 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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