Bill Text: AZ SCR1009 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; four-year terms

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-10 - Senate majority caucus: Do pass [SCR1009 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-SCR1009-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: legislature; four-year terms

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

 

 

SCR 1009

 

Introduced by

Senator Kavanagh

 

 

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.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives 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:

START_STATUTE21.  Term limits of members of state legislature

Section 21.  A.  The members of the first legislature shall hold office until the first Monday in January, 1913.  Through the fifty-second legislature, the terms of office of the members of succeeding legislatures shall be the house of representatives and the members of the senate are 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 applies to terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1993.

B.  Beginning with the fifty-third legislature in 2017, the terms of office of the members of the House of representatives and the members of the senate are four years.  Beginning with the fifty-third legislature in 2017, 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, 2017.

C.  No legislator, after serving the maximum number of terms, which shall include includes 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.

D.  The increase to a four-year term beginning with the fifty-third legislature in 2017 applies as follows:

1.  A legislator who serves three 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, 2017 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, 2013 is eligible to serve one additional consecutive term in that house that begins in January, 2017 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, 2015 without prior consecutive service in that house is eligible to serve two additional consecutive terms in that house that begin in January, 2017 and January, 2021.END_STATUTE

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.