Bill Text: MS HC12 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitution; amend to lower the minimum age to serve in the Mississippi House of Representatives to 18 years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee [HC12 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2018-HC12-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2018 Regular Session
To: Constitution
By: Representative Scott
House Concurrent Resolution 12
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 41, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO LOWER THE MINIMUM AGE TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM TWENTY-ONE TO EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, at the age of eighteen (18) years, citizens of the United States serve this country in the Armed Forces, often at great personal danger when called to protect this country;
WHEREAS, countless eighteen-year-old persons have given their lives for our country so that all United States citizens can enjoy freedom in the greatest nation on earth; and
WHEREAS, the age of eighteen (18) is the age at which citizens are eligible to elect public officials to office from the local level to the President of the United States of America; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the age of eighteen (18) years be the minimum age to serve in the Mississippi House of Representatives:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the electors of the state:
Amend Section 41, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:
"Section 41. No person
shall be a member of the House of Representatives who shall not have attained
the age of * * * eighteen (18) years, and who shall not be a qualified
elector of the state * * *
and who shall not have been a resident citizen of the state for four * * * years, and within the district such person
seeks to serve for two * * * years, immediately preceding his election. The seat of a member
of the House of Representatives shall be vacated on his removal from the
district from which he was elected."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2018, as provided by Section 273 and by general law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment of the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment will lower the minimum age requirement to serve as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from twenty-one (21) to eighteen (18) years of age."
