SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2004 SESSION
045149472Patrons-- Purkey, Amundson, Bland, Callahan, Landes, Marshall, D.W., May, Miles, Nutter, Orrock, Parrish, Plum, Rust, Shuler and Spruill; Senators: Blevins, Mims, Quayle, Wagner and Watkins
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby is, proposed and referred to the General Assembly at its first regular session held after the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence in conformity with the provisions of Section 1 of Article XII of the Constitution of Virginia, namely:
Amend Section 1 of Article V of the Constitution of Virginia as follows:
Section 1. Executive power; Governor's term of office.
The chief executive power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Governor. He
shall hold office for a term commencing upon his inauguration on the Saturday
after the second Wednesday in January, next succeeding his election, and ending
in the fourth year thereafter immediately upon the inauguration of his
successor. He No person shall be ineligible eligible to be elected more than
two times to the same office for the term next succeeding that for which he was
elected of Governor, and the Governor shall be ineligible to any other office
during his term of service. Only persons who are first elected to the office
of Governor in the year 2005 and thereafter shall be eligible to be elected to
two successive terms as Governor.