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Conference committee deadlocked over effective date for term-limits bill
Summary
Members of the House-Senate conference committee on House Bill 1300 debated whether the term-limits amendment should apply from the November 2022 election date or from its stated constitutional effective date of Jan. 1, 2023; no change or formal action was reached.
Chairman Koppelman, meeting as chair of the House-Senate conference committee on House Bill 1300, opened the session Tuesday and asked the clerk to take the role; a quorum was declared.
The panel spent the hearing debating a single central question: whether the legislative term-limits constitutional amendment should be applied to elections held Nov. 8, 2022, or should start on the amendment’s written effective date of Jan. 1, 2023. The House delegation urged treating the Nov. election as the operative moment; the Senate delegation insisted the amendment’s plain language makes Jan. 1 the effective date. The committee did not adopt new language or take a final vote.
“The date that we picked was simply a logical date,” Chairman Koppelman said,…
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