Bill Text: WV SJR9 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitutional Officer Term Limit Amendment
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - To Judiciary [SJR9 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2025-SJR9-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
Senate Joint Resolution 9
By Senators Woelfel and Garcia
[Introduced February 18, 2025; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance]
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending section four, article VII thereof, relating to term limits for constitutional officers; providing that no person shall serve more than two consecutive terms in any one of the offices of Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General; setting effective date; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in the year 2026, which proposed amendment is that section four, article VII thereof, be amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE VII.
§4. Eligibility.
None of the executive officers mentioned in this article shall hold any other office during the term of his or her service.
A person who has been elected or who has served as Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General during all or any part of two consecutive terms shall be ineligible for the office of governor that same office during any part of the term immediately following the second of the two consecutive terms. The person holding the office of governor when this section is ratified shall not be prevented from holding the office of governor during the term immediately following the term he is then serving The provisions of this section shall take effect from the time of ratification: Provided, That terms beginning prior to the ratification of this section are counted for purposes of the term limitation imposed by this section.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, such amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment 1" and designated as the "Constitutional Officer Term Limit Amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To prevent any person from serving more than two consecutive terms in any one of the offices of Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia preventing any person from serving more than two consecutive terms in the offices of Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, or Attorney General.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
