North Dakota Term Limits on the Ballot as “Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 1” – U.S. Term Limits

After the North Dakota Supreme Court docket smacked down the secretary of state, Al Jaeger, for unlawfully throwing out tens of hundreds of legitimate petitions, he was ordered to position the citizen’s time period limits initiative on the November 8, 2022 normal election poll.

The language was finalized for printing. Formally referred to as “Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 1,” as soon as handed will impose 8-year time period limits on the governor and 8-years for every chamber of the state meeting. Right here is the way it will seem on the poll:

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Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 1

This initiated measure would add a brand new article to the North Dakota Structure. Underneath the measure, a person couldn’t function a state legislator for a complete of greater than eight years in both the North Dakota Home of Representatives or the North Dakota Senate, individually. It additionally would prohibit a person from being elected as Governor greater than twice. Service as a member of the legislature or election to the workplace of governor earlier than the efficient date of this measure wouldn’t rely in the direction of a person’s eight-year or two-election restrict. A person wouldn’t be allowed to serve a full or remaining time period as a member of the legislature if serving the time period would trigger the person to serve a complete of greater than eight years in that specific home. Any modification to this text couldn’t be proposed by the legislature, however solely by citizen initiative. The article would change into efficient on January 1, 2023 if authorised by the voters. If the measure conflicts with some other provision of the structure, the measure states it will prevail over the opposite constitutional provision.

The estimated fiscal impression of this measure is $0 per biennium.

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Passing this initiative will make North Dakota the sixteenth state legislature to impose time period limits on its state lawmakers. It is going to concurrently change into the thirty seventh state to implement time period limits on its governor.

For extra info from the North Dakota secretary of state on methods to take part within the election, go to Vote.nd.gov.

For extra info on how one can assist the time period limits motion in North Dakota go to North Dakota for Time period Limits.

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