House of Representatives or four terms of office in the Senate.
(3) That section 4 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 4. Sessions.
The General Assembly shall be a continuing body during the
term for which its Representatives are elected. It shall meet at
12 o'clock noon on the first Tuesday of January each year, and
shall meet for no fewer than 160 voting sessions per session
term. Special sessions shall be called by the Governor on
petition of a majority of the members elected to each House or
may be called by the Governor whenever in his opinion the public
interest requires.
(4) That section 7 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 7. Ineligibility by criminal convictions.
No person hereafter convicted of a felony, embezzlement of
public moneys, bribery, perjury or other infamous crime, shall
be eligible to the General Assembly, or capable of holding any
office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth.
(5) That section 16 of Article II is amended to read:
§ 16. Legislative districts.
The Commonwealth shall be divided into [50] 45 senatorial and
[203] 153 representative districts, which shall be composed of
compact and contiguous territory as nearly equal in population
as practicable. Each senatorial district shall elect one
Senator, and each representative district one Representative.
Unless absolutely necessary no county, city, incorporated town,
borough, township or ward shall be divided in forming either a
senatorial or representative district.
Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
Assembly of the proposed separate and distinct constitutional
amendments, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed
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