REFERENCE TITLE: legislature; four-year terms; two terms |
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014
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HCR 2030 |
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Introduced by Representatives Contreras, Cardenas, Escamilla, Gabaldón, Mendez, Meyer, Miranda, Steele
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Arizona; amending article IV, part 2, section 21, Constitution of Arizona; relating to legislative members' terms.
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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:
1. Article IV, part 2, section 21, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:
Term limits of members of state legislature
21.Section
21. A. The members of the first legislature shall hold
office until the first Monday in January, 1913. Through the fifty-first legislature, the terms
of office of the members of succeeding legislatures
the house of representatives
and the members of the senate shall be two years. No state senator
shall serve more than four consecutive terms in that office, nor shall any
state representative serve more than four consecutive terms in that office.
This limitation on the number of terms of consecutive service shall apply to
terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1993. Beginning with the fifty‑second
legislature in 2015, the terms of office of the members of the house of
representatives and the members of the senate shall be four
years. Beginning with the fifty‑second legislature in 2015, a
state senator shall not serve more than two consecutive terms in that office,
nor shall any state representative serve more than two consecutive terms in
that office. This limitation to two consecutive terms of service
applies to terms of office that begin on or after January 1, 2015.
B. No legislator,
after serving the maximum number of terms, which shall include any part of a
term served, may serve in the same office until he
the legislator has
been out of office for no less than one full term.
C. The increase to a four-year term beginning with the fifty‑second legislature in 2015 shall apply as follows:
1. A legislator who serves three consecutive terms in one house of the legislature and whose first term began in January, 2009 is eligible to serve one additional consecutive term in that house that begins in January, 2015 and is not eligible for a fifth consecutive term in that house.
2. A legislator who serves two consecutive terms in one house of the legislature and whose first term began in January, 2011 is eligible to serve one additional consecutive term in that house that begins in January, 2015 and is not eligible for a fourth consecutive term in that house.
3. A legislator who serves one term in a house of the legislature and whose first term began in January, 2013 without prior consecutive service in that house is eligible to serve two additional consecutive terms in that house that begin in January, 2015 and January, 2019.
2. The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.