Post-Ratification of 24th Amendment By Texas
Texas State Representative Alma A. Allen of Houston, at Watson's prompting, introduced House Joint Resolution No. 39 during the Regular Session of the 81st Texas Legislature to post-ratify the 24th Amendment (prohibiting Congress or the states from conditioning the right to vote in Federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other tax). The Texas Legislature adopted H.J.R. No. 39 on May 22, 2009, thereby symbolically post-ratifying the 24th Amendment, 45 years after that amendment had been incorporated into the Federal Constitution.
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