Committee approves amendment to clarify how partial legislative terms count toward term limits
The committee adopted an amendment clarifying that the constitutional term limit counts only "complete four-year terms" and forwarded the change to the floor with a 5-1 vote after debate about partial terms and effective dates.
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The State and Local Government Committee voted to amend a voter-approved term-limits measure to clarify how partial terms count. The committee adopted an amendment that would define the limit as "no more than four complete four-year terms" and指定 an effective date back to the original measure; the amendment passed unanimously in committee and the panel then gave the proposal a do-pass recommendation by a 5-1 vote.
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