FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT

RESOLUTION NO. 21

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES VILLA, CARNAHAN (Co-sponsors), FARNEN,

RIBACK WILSON, BLAND, HAYWOOD AND TROUPE.

Read 1^st time March 14, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment repealing sections 4 and 6 of article III of the Constitution of Missouri, relating to the qualifications of representatives and senators and adopting two new sections in lieu thereof relating to the same subject.

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2002, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article III of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

Section A. Sections 4 and 6, article III, Constitution of Missouri, are repealed and two new sections adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 4 and 6, to read as follows:

Section 4. Each representative shall be [twenty-four] twenty-one years of age, and next before the day of his or her election shall have been a qualified voter [for two years] and a resident of the county or district which he or she is chosen to represent for one year, if such county or district shall have been so long established, and if not, then of the county or district from which the same shall have been taken.

Section 6. Each senator shall be [thirty] twenty-one years of age, and next before the day of his or her election shall have been a qualified voter of the state [for three years] and a resident of the district which he or she is chosen to represent for one year, if such district shall have been so long established, and if not, then of the district or districts from which the same shall have been taken.

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