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1994 SESSION
LD2115701RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates 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:
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 shall be ineligible to the same office for the term
next succeeding that for which he was elected, and to any other office
during his term of service.
No person shall be elected to the office of Governor more than twice. The person elected to the office of Governor in nineteen hundred ninety-three shall be ineligible to be elected to that office in nineteen hundred ninety-seven.