88R10964 MZM-D     By: Thompson of Harris H.J.R. No. 166       A JOINT RESOLUTION   proposing a constitutional amendment allowing recovery of   exemplary damages by a person's estate for a homicide.          BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 26, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is   amended to read as follows:          Sec. 26.  Every person, corporation, or company, that may   commit a homicide, through wilful act, or omission, or gross   neglect, shall be responsible, in exemplary damages, to the   surviving husband, widow, heirs of the deceased person's [his or   her] body, [or] such of them as there may be, or the deceased   person's estate without regard to any criminal proceeding that may   or may not be had in relation to the homicide.          SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be   submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2023.   The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the   proposition: "The constitutional amendment allowing recovery of   exemplary damages by a person's estate for a homicide."