California Elections Code

§ 10204.9

ELEC § 10204.9Div. 10 · Part 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1.2

Statute text

Notwithstanding any other provision of California law,

(a)A nonincumbent candidate for the office of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly shall be permitted to sign a ‛Term Limits Pledge‛ each time he or she files as a candidate for such an office. A candidate who declines to sign the “Term Limits Pledge” shall have “DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” printed adjacent to his or her name on the election ballot.

(b)Each time a nonincumbent candidate for U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, State Senator, or Member of the Assembly files for candidacy, he or she shall be offered the “Term Limits Pledge,” until such time as the U.S. Constitution has been amended to limit U.S. Senators to two terms in office and U.S. Representatives to three terms in office.

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Legislative history

Added June 2, 1998, by initiative Proposition 225. Repealed conditionally as prescribed in Section 10204.10.