AR Lawmakers Issue Proposal to Restructure Terms Limits

The amount of time a politician can remain in the Arkansas Legislature may soon change. Lawmakers have a proposal which would loosen the current law pertaining to their own term limits. Currently lawmakers are limited to 16 years in public office. These limits were approved by voters in the 1990’s during a backlash against some politicians which had spent decades in office. Public perception was that many of these politicians had lost touch with voters while in office and term limits would phase out these office holders. The current proposal of loosening the 16 year limit is meant to gain traction before another proposal a group wishes to put on the 2020 ballot which would strengthen Arkansas’s term limits to the strictest in the country. In 2014 Arkansas voters allowed a lax in the term limits set in the 90’s. Arkansas is currently one of 15 states that have legislative term limits for House and Senate members.

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