West Virginia State Legislative Term Limits Amendment (2022)
| West Virginia State Legislative Term Limits Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Term limits and State legislatures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The West Virginia State Legislative Term Limits Amendment was not on the ballot in West Virginia as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.[1]
The amendment would have limited the number of terms for state senators to three consecutive terms and for state delegates to six consecutive terms beginning in 2025.[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article VI, West Virginia Constitution
The measure would have amended section 3 of Article VI of the state constitution. The following underlined text would have been added:[2]
Text of Section 3: Senators and Delegates -- Terms of Office
Senators shall be elected for the term of four years, and delegates for the term of two years. The senators first elected, shall divide themselves into two classes, one senator from every district being assigned to each class; and of these classes, the first to be designated by lot in such manner as the Senate may determine, shall hold their seats for two years and the second for four years, so that after the first election, one half of the senators shall be elected biennially. After January 1, 2025, a person may not serve more than three consecutive terms as a senator or six consecutive terms as a delegate. Terms that begin prior to January 1, 2025, are not counted for purposes of this limitation, but a partial term served after January 1, 2025, shall be considered a term for purposes of this section.[3]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the West Virginia Constitution
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required in both the West Virginia State Senate and the West Virginia House of Delegates.
This amendment was introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 10 (SJR 10) on February 24, 2021. The state Senate approved SJR 10 with a vote of 32-2 on March 31, 2021. It did not receive a vote in the House during the 2021 legislative session.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 West Virginia State Legislature, "Overview SJR 10," accessed April 1, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 West Virginia Legislature, "Text of SJR 10," accessed April 1, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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