Bill Text: AZ HCR2023 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Senate staggered terms; term limits
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-24 - Referred to House JUD Committee [HCR2023 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2012-HCR2023-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: senate staggered terms; term limits |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fiftieth Legislature Second Regular Session 2012
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HCR 2023 |
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Introduced by Representative Heinz
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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.
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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate 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:
21. 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 fiftieth legislature that begins in 2011, the terms of office of the members of succeeding legislatures the house of representatives and the members of the senate shall be two years. Through the fiftieth legislature that begins in 2011, 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 to terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1993 and ending with terms of office in the fiftieth legislature.
B. Beginning with the fifty‑first legislature in 2013, the terms of office of the members of the senate shall be staggered terms of four years. A state senator shall not serve more than three consecutive terms in that office. The terms of office of the members of the house of representatives shall remain two years and a member of the house of representatives shall not serve more than six consecutive terms in that office. These limitations on consecutive terms of office apply to terms of office that begin on or after January 1, 2013.
C. No legislator, after serving the maximum number of terms, which shall include any part of a term served, may serve in the same office until he has been out of office for no less than one full term.
D. The change to a staggered four‑year term of office and the change to a limit of three consecutive terms of office for the members of the senate beginning with the fifty‑first legislature in 2013 shall apply as follows:
1. Fifteen of the senators elected to the fifty‑first legislature shall serve a four-year term, with those fifteen to be determined by lot from among the persons elected to the senate of the fifty‑first legislature. The remaining fifteen members of the senate shall serve a two‑year term until the fifty-second legislature in 2015, when the persons elected to fill the seats of those remaining fifteen members of the senate shall serve a four-year term. Thereafter, the term of office of all members of the senate shall be a term of four years.
2. Any person who serves any portion of a two-year senate term of office in the fifty‑first legislature is eligible to serve three additional consecutive terms in the senate that begin in January, 2015, January, 2019, and January, 2023, and is not eligible for a fifth consecutive term in the senate.
3. Any person who serves any portion of a four-year senate term of office in the fifty‑first and fifty‑second legislatures is eligible to serve two additional consecutive terms in the senate that begin in January, 2017, and January, 2021, and is not eligible for a fourth consecutive term in the senate.
E. The change to a limit of six consecutive terms of office for the members of the house of representatives beginning with the fifty‑first legislature in 2013 shall apply as follows:
1. A legislator who serves three consecutive terms in the house of representatives and whose first term of office began in January, 2007, is eligible to serve two additional consecutive terms in the house of representatives that begin in January, 2013, and January, 2015, and is not eligible for a sixth consecutive term in the house of representatives.
2. A legislator who serves two consecutive terms in the house of representatives and whose first term of office began in January, 2009, is eligible to serve three additional consecutive terms that begin in January, 2013, January, 2015, and January, 2017, and is not eligible for a sixth consecutive term in the house of representatives.
3. A legislator who serves one term in the house of representatives and whose first term of office began in January, 2011, is eligible to serve four additional consecutive terms of office in the house of representatives that begin in January, 2013, January, 2015, January, 2017, and January, 2019, and is not eligible for a sixth consecutive term in the house of representatives.
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.
