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1995 SESSION

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 42
Offered January 18, 1994
Proposing an amendment to Section 4 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia and proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article II a section numbered 5-A, relating to the qualifications and terms of members of the General Assembly and of the Congress.
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Patrons--Purkey, Dudley, Hamilton, Rhodes, Rollison, Ruff and Wagner
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Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
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RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing, That the following amendments to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same hereby are, 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 4 of Article IV of the Constitution of Virginia and amend the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article II a section numbered 5-A, as follows:

ARTICLE II
FRANCHISE AND OFFICERS

Section 5-A. Eligibility for election to the Congress of the United States.

No person shall be eligible to be elected to serve more than twelve years consecutively in the Congress of the United States representing the Commonwealth in either or both houses. Service for a partial term shall not preclude service for the succeeding twelve years. Persons who have served twelve consecutive years shall be eligible after four years to serve again in the Congress representing the Commonwealth. These limits shall not apply to service in the Congress prior to January one, nineteen hundred ninety-seven.

ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATURE

Section 4. Qualifications of senators and delegates.

Any person may be elected to the Senate who, at the time of the election, is twenty-one years of age, is a resident of the senatorial district which he is seeking to represent, and is qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly. Any person may be elected to the House of Delegates who, at the time of the election, is twenty-one years of age, is a resident of the house district which he is seeking to represent, and is qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly. A senator or delegate who moves his residence from the district for which he is elected shall thereby vacate his office.

No person shall be eligible to serve more than twelve years consecutively in the General Assembly, in either or both houses. Service for a partial term shall not preclude service for the succeeding twelve years. Persons who have served twelve consecutive years shall be eligible after four years to serve again in the General Assembly. These limits shall not apply to service in the General Assembly prior to the 1996 regular session.

No person holding a salaried office under the government of the Commonwealth, and no judge of any court, attorney for the Commonwealth, sheriff, treasurer, assessor of taxes, commissioner of the revenue, collector of taxes, or clerk of any court shall be a member of either house of the General Assembly during his continuance in office; and his qualification as a member shall vacate any such office held by him. No person holding any office or post of profit or emolument under the United States government, or who is in the employment of such government, shall be eligible to either house.