North Dakota voters in November will decide whether to impose term limits on the governor and state lawmakers. It’s a change supporters say would bring in new blood and term-limit foes decry as a blow to institutional knowledge of the Legislature.
Measure 1 would add a new article to the state constitution, effective Jan. 1, 2023, imposing term limits of eight cumulative years each in the House and Senate.The governor could not be elected more than twice.Term limits would not be retroactive -- meaning the service of current officeholders would not count against them.
The measure’s language also would bar the Legislature from proposing amendments to alter or repeal the term limits; only citizens would be able to do so.The measure does not affect Congress.
Measure Chairman Jared Hendrix says he’s found a general sense that people don’t feel well represented at local and congressional levels. "I think people inherently know that you’re not going to get reform with the same people stuck in positions for decades," Hendrix told the Bismarck Tribune.
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