Tex. Const. art. III, § 43 · Article 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
REVISION OF LAWS.
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
(a) The Legislature shall provide for revising, digesting and publishing the laws, civil and criminal; provided, that in the adoption of and giving effect to any such digest or revision, the Legislature shall not be limited by sections 35 and 36 of this Article.
(b) In this section, "revision" includes a revision of the statutes on a particular subject and any enactment having the purpose, declared in the enactment, of codifying without substantive change statutes that individually relate to different subjects.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876. Subsec. (a) amended and (b) added Nov. 4, 1986.)
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 54502a55496cc82c6f6d4fef4eb11b83d97ccdba6245b1b7699b5184d165fccc
- 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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