SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT

RESOLUTION NO. 33

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FARNEN.

Read 1st time December 19, 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 section 8 of article III of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof relating to term limits.



Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

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Section A. Section 8, article III, Constitution of Missouri, is repealed and one new section adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 8, to read as follows:

Section 8. No one shall be elected [or appointed] to serve more than eight years total in any one house of the General Assembly nor more than sixteen years total in both houses of the General Assembly. In applying this section, service in the General Assembly resulting from an election [or appointment] prior to [the effective date of this section] December 3, 1992, or service of less than a full General Assembly by a person elected after the effective date of this section to complete the term of another person, shall not be counted.


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