TITLE: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a person's free exercise of religion.

SUMMARY: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a person's free exercise of religion.

FULL TEXT:
84(R) HJR 125-Introduced version-Bill Text 84R340 SCL-F By: Krause H.J.R. No. 125 A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a person's free exercise of religion. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 6, Article I, Texas Constitution, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 6. (a) All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion, and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious society or mode of worship. (b) The state or a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, including a department, agency, or instrumentality of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, may not burden in any way a person's free exercise of religion unless the burden is: (1) necessary to further a compelling governmental interest; and (2) the least restrictive means of furthering that interest. (c) A homeowners' association may not burden in any way a person's free exercise of religion unless the burden is: (1) necessary to further a compelling quasi-governmental interest of the homeowners' association; and (2) the least restrictive means of furthering that interest. (d) But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship. SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to a person's free exercise of religion."