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    This document outlines impeachment and removal procedures for public officers under the Texas Constitution. It establishes that the power of impeachment is vested in the House of Representatives, and trials of impeachment for certain state officers are conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote of Senators is required to convict in an impeachment trial. Impeached officers are subject to removal from office and disqualification from future office, as well as criminal prosecution.

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    This document outlines impeachment and removal procedures for public officers under the Texas Constitution. It establishes that the power of impeachment is vested in the House of Representatives, and trials of impeachment for certain state officers are conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote of Senators is required to convict in an impeachment trial. Impeached officers are subject to removal from office and disqualification from future office, as well as criminal prosecution.

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    This document outlines impeachment and removal procedures for public officers under the Texas Constitution. It establishes that the power of impeachment is vested in the House of Representatives, and trials of impeachment for certain state officers are conducted by the Senate. A two-thirds vote of Senators is required to convict in an impeachment trial. Impeached officers are subject to removal from office and disqualification from future office, as well as criminal prosecution.

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    Article XV, Texas Constitution (Tex.

    Official)

    THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION

    ARTICLE 15. IMPEACHMENT

    Sec.A1.AAIMPEACHMENT BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The power

    of impeachment shall be vested in the House of Representatives.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    Sec.A2.AATRIAL OF IMPEACHMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS BY SENATE.

    Impeachment of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney

    General, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Comptroller and

    the Judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and District Court

    shall be tried by the Senate.

    (Feb. 15, 1876. Amended Nov. 7, 1995.)

    Sec.A3.AAIMPARTIAL TRIAL BY SENATE; CONCURRENCE OF

    TWO-THIRDS REQUIRED. When the Senate is sitting as a Court of

    Impeachment, the Senators shall be on oath, or affirmation

    impartially to try the party impeached, and no person shall be

    convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators

    present.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    Sec.A4.AAJUDGMENT TO REMOVE AND DISQUALIFY; PUNISHMENT UNDER

    OTHER LAW PERMITTED. Judgement{ in cases of impeachment shall

    extend only to removal from office, and disqualification from

    holding any office of honor, trust or profit under this State. A.

    Party{ convicted on impeachment shall also be subject to indictment{

    trial and punishment according to law.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    { 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.

    Sec.A5.AASUSPENSION PENDING IMPEACHMENT; PROVISIONAL

    APPOINTMENT. All officers against whom articles of impeachment may

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    be preferred shall be suspended from the exercise of the duties of

    their office, during the pendency of such impeachment. The

    Governor may make a provisional appointment to fill the vacancy,{

    occasioned by the suspension of an officer until the decision on the

    impeachment.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    { 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.

    Sec.A6.AAREMOVAL OF DISTRICT JUDGES BY SUPREME COURT. Any

    Judge of the District Courts of the State who is incompetent to

    discharge the duties of his office, or who shall be guilty of

    partiality, or oppression, or other official misconduct, or whose

    habits and conduct are such as to render him unfit to hold such

    office, or who shall negligently fail to perform his duties as

    Judge; or who shall fail to execute in a reasonable measure the

    business in his courts, may be removed by the Supreme Court. The

    Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction to hear and

    determine the causes aforesaid when presented in writing upon the

    oaths taken before some Judge of a court of record of not less than

    ten lawyers, practicing in the courts held by such Judge, and

    licensed to practice in the Supreme Court; said presentment to be

    founded either upon the knowledge of the persons making it or upon

    the written oaths as to the facts of creditable witnesses. The

    Supreme Court may issue all needful process and prescribe all

    needful rules to give effect to this section. Causes of this kind

    shall have precedence and be tried as soon as practicable.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    Sec.A7.AAREMOVAL OF OFFICERS WHEN MODE NOT PROVIDED IN

    CONSTITUTION. The Legislature shall provide by law for the trial

    and removal from office of all officers of this State, the modes for

    which have not been provided in this Constitution.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

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    Sec.A8.AAREMOVAL OF JUDGES BY GOVERNOR ON ADDRESS OF

    TWO-THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE OF LEGISLATURE. The Judges of the Supreme

    Court, Court of Appeals and District Courts, shall be removed by the

    Governor on the address of two-thirds of each House of the

    Legislature, for wilful neglect of duty, incompetency, habitual

    drunkenness, oppression in office, or other reasonable cause which

    shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment; provided{ however,

    that the cause or causes for which such removal,{ shall be required,

    shall be stated at length in such address and entered on the

    journals of each House; and provided further, that the cause or

    causes shall be notified to the Judge so intended to be removed, and

    he shall be admitted to a hearing in his own defense before any vote

    for such address shall pass, and in all such cases, the vote shall

    be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journals of each House

    respectively.

    (Feb. 15, 1876.)

    { 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.

    Sec.A9.AAREMOVAL OF PUBLIC OFFICER BY APPOINTING GOVERNOR

    WITH ADVICE AND CONSENT OF SENATE. (a) In addition to the other

    procedures provided by law for removal of public officers, the

    governor who appoints an officer may remove the officer with the

    advice and consent of two-thirds of the members of the senate

    present.

    (b)AAIf the legislature is not in session when the governor

    desires to remove an officer, the governor shall call a special

    session of the senate for consideration of the proposed removal.

    The session may not exceed two days in duration.

    (Added Nov. 4, 1980.)

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