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1995 SESSION

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 575
Offered January 23, 1995
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article II a section numbered 5-A, relating to eligibility for election to the United States Congress.
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Patrons--Wardrup, McClure, Newman, Wagner and Way; Senators: Quayle and Stolle
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Referred to Committee on Rules
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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 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 the Constitution of Virginia by adding in Article II a section numbered 5-A, as follows:

ARTICLE II
FRANCHISE AND OFFICERS
Section 5-A. Election to the Congress of the United States.

Any person having been elected to two or more consecutive terms in the Senate of the United States representing the Commonwealth shall not be certified as a candidate and shall not be eligible to have his or her name placed on the ballot for election to the Senate for any additional term. Any person having been elected to six or more consecutive terms in the House of Representatives of the United States representing the Commonwealth shall not be certified as a candidate and shall not be eligible to have his or her name placed on the ballot for election to the House of Representatives for any additional term. These limits shall not apply to service for a partial term. These limits shall apply to terms of office in the Congress beginning on and after January one, nineteen hundred ninety-seven.