SB120 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Trip Pittman

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Term limits, members of Senate and House of Representatives limited to three consecutive full terms, const. amend.

Summary

SB120 would limit Alabama legislators to three consecutive full terms in each chamber and count any two-year service as one term, with pre-2016 service grandfathered.

What This Bill Does

It would amend the Alabama Constitution to cap term limits for both the Senate and the House at three consecutive full terms. It also says that an election or any service of at least two years in a chamber counts as one full term for the purpose of term limits. It includes a grandfather clause stating that legislative service before November 2016 would not disqualify someone from serving again after the amendment takes effect. The change would take effect only if voters approve the amendment in a statewide election.

Who It Affects

• Current and future members of the Alabama Senate and Alabama House of Representatives would be limited to three consecutive full terms, with two-year stints counting as one term.
• Alabama voters would vote on this constitutional change; their approval would enact the term-limit rules in the state constitution.

Key Provisions

• No person may be elected to the Alabama Senate for more than three full consecutive terms.
• No person may be elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for more than three full consecutive terms.
• An election to either the Senate or the House for at least two years counts as one full term for term-limit purposes.
• Service in the Senate prior to November 2016 shall not disqualify, in whole or in part, a person from service in the Senate after that date; the same applies to service in the House prior to November 2016.
• The amendment would be proposed and would take effect only if approved by voters in a statewide election, becoming part of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments