HJR 128 Texas House · 89th Legislature (2025)

Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the terminology used in the Texas Constitution to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to replace all references to the "Gulf of Mexico" with "Gulf of America" in Texas Constitution provisions related to coastal areas. It specifically amends Sections 33 (public beaches), 1-i (tax relief for drilling equipment), 1-A (county beach regulations), and 7 (coastal counties' tax authority) to use the new terminology. The change affects only the legal wording in the Constitution - no policy, rights, or responsibilities are altered. This is purely a terminological update with no substantive impact on coastal laws or governance.
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Mar 2025
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Introduced Mar 17, 2025 Last action Mar 17, 2025
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