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."