Bill Text: MI HJRS | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; legislators; term limits; revise, and impose 2-year moratorium on lobbying for legislators. Amends sec. 54, art. IV & adds sec. 55 to art. IV of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 05/01/2013 [HJRS Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HJRS-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION S

 

April 30, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Schor, Rogers, Denby, Outman, Hovey-Wright, Kandrevas, Irwin, Yonker, Muxlow, Callton, Kivela, Zemke, Darany, Townsend and Faris and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 54 of article IV and

 

adding section 55 to article IV, to modify term limits for certain

 

elected state offices and to prohibit a legislator from being a

 

lobbyist or lobbyist agent for 2 years following his or her term of

 

office.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to modify term limits for certain elected

 

state offices and to prohibit a legislator from being a lobbyist or

 

lobbyist agent for 2 years following his or her term of office, is

 

proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 54. No person shall be elected to the office of state

 

representative more than three six times. No person shall be

 

elected to the office of state senate more than two three times.

 

Any person appointed or elected to fill a vacancy in the house of

 

representatives or the state senate for a period greater than one

 

half of a term of such office, shall be considered to have been

 

elected to serve one time in that office for purposes of this

 

section. This limitation on the number of times a person shall be

 

elected to office shall apply to terms of office beginning on or

 

after January 1, 1993.

 

     This section shall be self-executing. Legislation may be

 

enacted to facilitate operation of this section, but no law shall

 

limit or restrict the application of this section. If any part of

 

this section is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the

 

remaining parts of this section shall not be affected but will

 

remain in full force and effect.

 

     Sec. 55. A former member of the Michigan senate or house of

 

representatives shall not be a lobbyist or lobbyist agent for two

 

years immediately following the end of the term of office to which

 

he or she was elected.

 

     Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be

 

submitted to the people of the state at the next general election

 

in the manner provided by law.