PRINTER'S NO. 765
No. 681 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY MEBUS, KNEPPER, A. K. HUTCHINSON, ROMANELLI AND
WRIGHT, MARCH 5, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 10, 1975
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, providing for four-year terms for
3 Representatives and limiting the number of terms for Senators
4 and Representatives.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby resolves as follows:
7 Section 1. The following amendments to the Constitution of
8 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are proposed in accordance with
9 the eleventh article thereof:
10 That sections three and five, article two of the Constitution
11 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be amended to read:
12 Section 3. Terms of Members.--Senators and Representatives
13 shall be elected at the same election as the Governor for the
14 term of four years [and Representatives for the term of two
15 years].
16 Section 5. Qualifications of Members.--Senators shall be at
17 least twenty-five years of age and Representatives twenty-one
18 years of age. They shall have been citizens and inhabitants of
19 the State four years, and inhabitants of their respective
1 districts one year next before their election (unless absent on
2 the public business of the United States or of this State), and
3 shall reside in their respective districts during their terms of
4 service and shall not after 1978 have been previously elected to
5 more than two four-year terms in the body to which seeking
6 election.
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