Missouri 2025 2025 Regular Session

Missouri House Bill HJR12 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 12/18/2024

                    HJR12--GENERALASSEMBLYTERMLIMITS
SPONSOR: Myers
Uponvoterapproval,beginningwiththe2030decennialcensus,this
resolutionchangesthenumberofmembersintheMissouriHouseof
Representatives from163to103.
Currently,nomemberoftheGeneralAssemblymayservemorethan
eightyearstotalinanyonehouseoftheGeneralAssembly,nor
morethan16yearstotalinbothhousesoftheGeneralAssembly.
Uponvoterapproval,thisconstitutional amendmentremovesthe
prohibitiononamemberservingmorethaneightyearstotalinany
onehouseoftheGeneralAssembly,beginningJanuary1,2032.
AlsobeginningJanuary1,2032,thisconstitutional amendmentwould
prohibitanymemberoftheHouseofRepresentatives fromservingas
SpeakerorSpeakerProTemoftheHouseformorethanthree
consecutiveterms,andanymemberoftheSenatefromservingas
PresidentProTemoftheSenateformorethantwoconsecutive
terms.
ThisbillissimilartoHJR2(2025)andthesameasHJR90(2024).