Fiscal Summary

NOT SIGNIFICANT

Bill Summary

This bill requires each county election commission to include on the November 2024 election ballot the following question concerning the term limits of public officials, including school board members, for the voters of the county and for the voters of each municipality within the county:

Should each local elected or appointed public official for (name of local government) be term limited after sixteen (16) years in office? YES or NO

This bill authorizes residents of a municipality within a county to vote on the question for county officials. However, residents of the unincorporated area of a county are prohibited from voting on the question for the public officials of a municipality within the county.

If the majority of the electorate of a local government does not vote in the affirmative on the question, then the question may be placed on the November ballot in the next subsequent even-numbered year by submitting a petition in support of 16-year term limits to the governing body of the local government containing the signatures of 10 percent or more of the votes cast in the jurisdiction for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election; or in the alternative, the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the local legislative body calling for the question to be placed on the ballot.

However, if the majority of the electorate of a local government votes in the affirmative on the question, then the question of whether to remove 16-year term limits from local elected and appointed public officials may be placed on the November ballot in a next subsequent even-numbered year in the same manner that a question may be placed on such a ballot.

If a local government, by majority vote, votes in the affirmative to impose term limits on local elected and appointed public officials, then beginning with the next general November election in the next subsequent even-numbered year, this bill provides that each local public official of the local government is subject to a term limit of 16 years regardless of whether the terms were served consecutively. If a local public official is in office when term limits go into effect and the official has served more than 16 years by the end of the official's current term of office, then the member may serve out the remainder of the member's term.