Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice to Organize State Constitution Amendment (2018)
| Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice to Organize State Constitution Amendment | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Constitutional language | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice to Organize State Constitution Amendment was not on the ballot in Alabama as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to reorganize and arrange articles, parts, and sections of the state constitution, as well as remove language not in force from the constitution. The chief justice would not have been authorized to make other changes. The reorganized document would have been submitted to the Alabama State Legislature for final approval during the 2022 legislative session and every 10 years thereafter.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]
| “ | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to require the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to recompile the Alabama Constitution and submit it to the Legislature during the 2022 Regular Session, and at each regular session occurring every 10 years thereafter.[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Alabama Constitution
The measure would have added a new amendment to the Alabama Constitution. The following text would have been added:[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Alabama Constitution
In Alabama, a constitutional amendment must be passed by a 60 percent vote in each house of the state legislature during one legislative session. Sen. Del Marsh (R-12) introduced the amendment into the legislature as Senate Bill 144. On February 23, 2017, the Senate approved the measure, with 23 senators approving and 12 not present or voting. The measure was referred to the House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee, where it never received a vote.[3]
The 2017 legislative session was expected to run from February 7, 2017, through May 19, 2017.
Senate vote
February 23, 2017[3]
| Alabama SB 144 Senate Vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 23 | 100.00% | ||
| No | 0 | 0.00% | ||
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Alabama Legislature, "Senate Bill 144," accessed February 27, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Alabama Legislature, "Senate Bill 144," accessed February 27, 2017
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