Colorado Term Limits Act (1996)
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Colorado Amendment 12, also known as the Term Limits Act, was on the November 5, 1996 election ballot in Colorado. It passed, with 54% of voters in favor.
Text of the proposal
The language that appeared on the ballot:
The proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution: - Begins the process in Colorado to call a convention to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to limit congressional terms; - Provides that the congressional term limits amendment considered at the amendment-proposing convention, commonly referred to as a constitutional convention, restricts members of the U.S. House of Representatives to three two-year terms and members of the U.S. Senate to two six-year terms, and limits former and current House members to two additional terms and Senate members to one additional term; - Instructs each Colorado state legislator to vote for a constitutional convention to propose a congressional term limtis amendment to the U.S. Constitution and to ratify the amendment when it is referred to the states; - Requires that, until the congressional term limits amendment is approved by the Colorado General Assembly, all election ballots identify any state legislator who failed to vote for the amendment during the steps necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution; - Instructions each member of Colorado's congressional delegation to vote for the amendment; - Requires election ballots to identify each member of Congress from Colorado who fails to vote for the amendment during the steps in the process necessary to win its approval; - Requires primary and general eleciton ballots to identify which non-incumbents running for Congress and the state legislature have not signed a pledge to vote for the term limits amendment; and - Provides that challenges to the amendment be filed before the Colorado Supreme Court.
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