Bill Text: NJ ACR83 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposes Constitutional Amendment to limit to 12 number of successive years members of General Assembly can serve.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [ACR83 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-ACR83-Introduced.html
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 83
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BRIAN BERGEN
District 26 (Morris and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Proposes Constitutional Amendment to limit to 12 number of successive years members of General Assembly can serve.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
A Concurrent Resolution proposing to amend Article IV, Section II, paragraph 4 of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey.
Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (the Senate concurring):
1. The following proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Jersey is hereby agreed to:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
Amend Article IV, Section II, paragraph 4 to read as follows:
4. Two members of the General Assembly shall be elected by the legally qualified voters of each Assembly district for terms beginning at noon of the second Tuesday in January next following their election and ending at noon of the second Tuesday in January two years thereafter.
A member of the General Assembly shall not be eligible to serve more than 12 successive years in the General Assembly, except that a member who is serving a term at the end of the 12th successive year shall be allowed to complete that term. Service for one year or more to fill an unexpired term of office shall be included in the limitation imposed herein. Years of service shall be considered successive unless there is a break in service consisting of one intervening term.
(cf: Art.IV, Sec.II, par.4; amended effective December 8, 1966)
2. When this proposed amendment to the Constitution is finally agreed to pursuant to Article IX, paragraph 1 of the Constitution, it shall be submitted to the people at the next general election occurring more than three months after the final agreement and shall be published at least once in at least one newspaper of each county designated by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Secretary of State, not less than three months prior to the general election.
3. This proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be submitted to the people at that election in the following manner and form:
There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at the general election, the following:
a. In every municipality in which voting machines are not used, a legend which shall immediately precede the question as follows:
If you favor the proposition printed below make a cross (X), plus (+), or check (a) in the square opposite the word "Yes." If you are opposed thereto make a cross (X), plus (+) or check (a) in the square opposite the word "No."
b. In every municipality the following question:
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO LIMIT SERVICE IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO 12 CONSECUTIVE YEARS
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YES
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Do you approve a change to the Constitution to limit the service of a member of the General Assembly to 12 consecutive years in that office? The limit would also apply to any member currently in office.
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INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT |
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NO
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This amendment would limit to 12 the number of consecutive years that a member of the General Assembly could serve in that office. The term of office of a member of the General Assembly is two years. This change would limit the service of a member to six consecutive terms. The limit would apply to any member currently in office. However, years served as a member before the amendment is adopted would not be counted toward the limit.
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SCHEDULE
The limitation on the number
of successive years a member of the General Assembly may serve as established
by this constitutional amendment shall apply only for successive years served
after the adoption of the amendment. A member who, on the date of adoption of
the amendment, is serving as a member of the General Assembly shall not have
the number of years served by that member before the adoption counted toward
the limitation on the number of successive years as established by this
constitutional amendment.
STATEMENT
This concurrent resolution would amend the State Constitution to limit the successive number of years that a member of the General Assembly can serve.
A member of the General Assembly would not be eligible to serve more than 12 successive years in office, except that a member or official who is serving a term at the end of the 12th successive year would be allowed to complete that term. Service for one year or more to fill an unexpired term of office is included in the limitation imposed by this amendment. Years of service would be considered successive unless there is a break in service consisting of one intervening term of office.
This amendment would apply to successive years served by members of the General Assembly after the adoption of the amendment. A member of the General Assembly who is serving on the date of adoption of the amendment will not have the years served as a member before the adoption counted toward the limitation.
