Bill Text: MS HC39 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Constitution; amend to provide that the minimum age to serve in Mississippi State Senate is 18 years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee [HC39 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2016-HC39-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Constitution
By: Representative Scott
House Concurrent Resolution 39
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 42, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO DECREASE THE MINIMUM AGE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE SENATE FROM 25 TO 18 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; and
WHEREAS, the age of eighteen (18) years 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, 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, it is appropriate that the age of eighteen (18) years be the minimum age to serve in the Mississippi State Senate:
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 42, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:
"Section 42. No person
shall be a senator who shall not have attained the age of * * *
eighteen (18)
years, who shall not have been a qualified elector of the state four (4) years,
and who shall not be an actual resident of the district or territory he may be
chosen to represent for two (2) years before his election. The seat of a
senator shall be vacated upon 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 2016, 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 State Senate from twenty-five (25) to eighteen (18) years of age."
