NOTICE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSED

BY PETITION OF THE PEOPLE

Issue No. 3

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Pursuant to Article 5, Section 1, of the Arkansas Constitution (Amendment 7) and Ark. Code Ann. § 7-9-113, a constitutional amendment proposed by petition of the people will appear on

the November 6, 2018 ballot as Issue No. 3. Each elector upon voting his/her ballot shall vote for or against this amendment. The Popular Name, Ballot Title, and complete text of the proposed

amendment follow.

(Popular Name)

Arkansas Term Limits Amendment

(Ballot Title)

A proposed amendment to the Arkansas Constitution concerning term limits for members of the

Arkansas General Assembly; to provide that no person may be elected to more than three (3) two-year terms as a member

of the House of Representatives, to more than two (2) four-year terms as a member of the Senate, or to any term that, if served, would cause the member to exceed a total

of ten (10) years of service in the General Assembly; to repeal Section 2(c) of Amendment 73 that established a years-of-service limit on members of the General Assembly of sixteen (16) years; to

provide that the ten-year service limit shall include all two (2) and four (4) year terms, along with full years of any partial term served as a result of a special election to fill a vacancy; to apply the

limits to terms and service in the General Assembly on and after January 1, 1993; to provide that this amendment shall not cut short or invalidate a term to which a member of the General Assembly

was elected prior to the effective date of this amendment; to provide that notwithstanding the General Assembly’s constitutional authority to propose amendments to the Constitution, the

General Assembly shall not have the authority to propose an amendment to the Constitution regarding term limits for the House of Representatives or Senate, and to continue reserving that

power to the people under Article 5, Section 1, as amended by Amendment 7; and to declare that if any provision of this amendment should be held invalid, the remainder shall stand.

(Complete Text of Proposed Amendment)

SECTION 1.

Term Limits.

(a) No person may be elected to:

(1) More than three (3) two-year terms as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives;

(2) More than two (2) four-year terms as a member of the Arkansas Senate; or

(3) Any term which if served would exceed a total of ten (10) years in the General Assembly.

(b) In calculating the ten-year limit:

(1) Two-year House terms and two-year and four-year Senate terms shall be included; and