Texas Elected Officials Oath, Proposition 7 (1989)

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The Texas Elected Officials Oath Amendment, also known as Proposition 7, was on the November 7, 1989 ballot in Texas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure removed language regarding bribery from the oral oath of office for elected officials, and instead required that elected officials sign a written oath that they did not engage in bribery to obtain the office.^[1][2]

Election results[edit]

Texas Proposition 7 (1989)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		796,323	69.25%
No		353,661	30.75%

Election results via: Legislative Reference Library of Texas

Text of measure[edit]

The text of the measure can be read here.

Constitutional changes[edit]

Proposition 7 amended Section 1 of Article XVI of the Texas Constitution.

Path to the ballot[edit]

See also: Laws governing direct democracy in Texas

As laid out in Article 17 of the Texas Constitution, in order for a proposed constitutional amendment to be placed on the ballot, the Texas State Legislature must propose the amendment in a joint resolution of both the Texas State Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The joint resolution can originate in either the House or the Senate. The resolution must be adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each house of the legislature. That amounts to a minimum of 100 votes in the House of Representatives and 21 votes in the Senate.

See also[edit]

Suggest a link

• Texas 1989 ballot measures
• 1989 ballot measures
• List of Texas ballot measures
• History of direct democracy in Texas

External links[edit]

• Legislative Reference Library of Texas
• Proposition 7

Footnotes[edit]

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