Tex. Const. art. III, § 30 · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
LAWS PASSED BY BILL; AMENDMENTS CHANGING PURPOSE PROHIBITED.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
No law shall be passed, except by bill, and no bill shall be so amended in its passage through either House, as to change its original purpose.
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.3.htm
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- 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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