West Virginia Term Limits for Certain Executive Offices Amendment (2022)
| West Virginia Term Limits for Certain Executive Offices Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Term limits | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The West Virginia Term Limits for Certain Executive Offices 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 the secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, attorney general, and commissioner of agriculture to no more than three consecutive terms.[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article VII, West Virginia Constitution
The ballot measure would have amended section 4 of Article VII of the state constitution. The following underlined text would have been added, and struck-through text would have been deleted by Senate Joint Resolution 11:[2]
Text of Section 4: Eligibility
None of the executive officers mentioned in this article shall hold any other office during the term of his or her service. A person who has been elected or who has served as governor during all or any part of two consecutive terms shall be is ineligible for the office of governor during any part of the term immediately following the second of the two consecutive terms. The person holding the office of governor when this section is ratified shall not be prevented from holding the office of governor during the term immediately following the term he is then serving.
After January 1, 2025, a person may not serve more than three consecutive terms as Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Attorney General, or Commissioner of Agriculture. Terms that begin prior to January 1, 2025, are not counted for the purposes of this limitation, but a partial term served after that date 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.
2021 legislative session
This amendment was introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 11 (SJR 11) on March 2, 2021. The state Senate approved SJR 11 with a vote of 30-3 with one absent on March 27, 2021. The amendment did not receive a vote in the House during the 2021 legislative session.[1]
2022 legislative session
A similar constitutional amendment was introduced into the state Legislature as House Joint Resolution 104 (HJR 104) during the 2022 legislative session. On March 2, 2022, the state House passed HJR 104 by a vote of 93-0, with seven absent. On March 12, the state Senate passed an amended version of HJR 104 by a vote of 30-2, with two absent. As the Senate amended HJR 104, a concurrence vote was required in the House. The state Legislature adjourned on March 12 before a final vote took place on the constitutional amendment.[4]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 West Virginia State Legislature, "Overview SJR 11," accessed March 29, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 West Virginia Legislature, "Text of SJR 11," accessed March 29, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
- ↑ West Virginia State Legislature, "House Joint Resolution 104," accessed March 3, 2022
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