Without debate, the Texas Senate unanimously approved a resolution that would ask voters to decide whether to amend the Texas Constitution to allow the Legislature to instruct courts to send notice to the attorney general when a litigant alleges that a state law is unconstitutional.
The proposed constitutional amendment under Senate Joint Resolution 8 would also instruct courts not to issue a final judgment until 45 days after the notice. Texans would vote in November about whether to amend the constitution.
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