Category: Legislation Tracking
Representative Glenn Steil (R), has proposed this Constitutional Amendment through joint resolution, requiring that it be placed to a vote of the people. I post only the summary, since the amendemnt is rather intricate in the sections it affects. The basic idea is this though:
Cut the number of legislators in half, and double term limits. It's a fascinating political compromise, and although I don't officially support or oppose it yet, it is clearly an attempt to get term limit expansion on the ballot in both a winnable way and a way that legislators can go back to their constitutuencies and have something to claim they weren't being self-serving. It would also change the dynamic of elections.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION C
January 22, 2007,
Introduced by Rep. Steil and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution of 1963, by amending sections 2, 3, and 54 of article IV, to reduce the number of senators and representatives and to increase term limits.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state constitution of 1963, to reduce the number of senators and
representatives and to increase term limits, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:








