Opinion ID: 1115370
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Term Limitations

Text: The measure imposes specific term limitations for state legislators and various state constitutional officers. Persons elected or appointed on or after November 6, 1990, to the office of Governor (Cal. Const., art. V, § 2), Lieutenant Governor ( id., § 11), Attorney General ( ibid. ), Controller ( ibid. ), Secretary of State ( ibid. ), Treasurer ( ibid. ), Superintendent of Public Instruction ( id., art. IX, § 2), or to the State Board of Equalization ( id., art. XIII, § 17), or the state Senate ( id., art. IV, § 2, subd. (a)), are limited to two terms. Members of the Assembly are limited to three terms ( ibid. ). Section 7 is added to article XX of the Constitution (the Miscellaneous Subjects article), to explain that the foregoing term limitations apply only to terms to which persons are elected or appointed on or after November 6, 1990, except that an incumbent Senator whose office is not on the ballot for the general election on that date may serve only one additional term, and that the foregoing term limits shall not apply to any unexpired term to which a person is elected or appointed if the remainder of the term is less than half of the full term.