Bill Text: VA SJR227 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-31 - Incorporated by Privileges and Elections [SJR227 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-SJR227-Prefiled.html
RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:
Amend Section 1 of Article V of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:
Section 1. Executive power; Governor's term of office.
The chief executive power of the Commonwealth shall be vested
in a Governor. He shall hold office for a term commencing upon his inauguration
on the Saturday after the second Wednesday in January, next succeeding his
election, and ending in the fourth year thereafter immediately upon the
inauguration of his successor. He shall be ineligible to
the same office for the term next succeeding that for which he was elected, and
to any other office during his term of service. No
person shall be elected to the office of Governor more than twice, and no
person who has held the office of Governor, or acted as Governor, for more than
two years of a term to which some other person was elected Governor shall be
elected to the office of Governor more than once. The authorization to serve
two terms in succession shall be applicable to persons first elected to serve
as Governor in 2021 and thereafter.
