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MO SJR30

Joint Resolution

Status

Introduced

1/4/2012

Primary Sponsor

John Lamping

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Submits to Missouri voters a constitutional amendment repealing and replacing Section 17 of Article IV regarding elective state officers

  • Beginning in 2016 and thereafter, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor must be nominated and elected jointly as a single ticket, with voters casting one vote for the pair

  • Joint nomination requirements apply to both petition and convention nominations, with each petition signature and convention vote made for the governor-lieutenant governor team running together

  • Maintains existing provisions that no person may be elected governor or treasurer more than twice and limits succession after serving more than two years of another person's term

  • Preserves existing four-year terms for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, and attorney general at presidential elections

Legislative Description

Requires the joint election of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor beginning in the year 2016

Last Action

S Informal Calendar S Bills for Perfection--SJR 30-Lamping

5/18/2012

Committee Referrals

Financial And Governmental Organizations And Elections1/5/2012

Full Bill Text

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