Bill Text: GA HR1446 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: State Transportation Board; members term of office; limit - CA
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-09 - House Committee Favorably Reported [HR1446 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR1446-Comm_Sub.html
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The
House Committee on Transportation offers the following substitute to HR
1446:
A
RESOLUTION
Proposing
an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that members of the State
Transportation Board shall be elected to serve a term of two years; to provide
for submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
IV, Section IV, Paragraph I of the Constitution is amended by revising
subparagraph (a) as follows:
"(a)
There shall be a State Transportation Board composed of as many members as there
are congressional districts in the state. The member of the board from each
congressional district shall be elected by a majority vote of the members of the
House of Representatives and Senate whose respective districts are embraced or
partly embraced within such congressional district meeting in caucus. The
members of the board in office on
June 30,
1983
December 31,
2010, shall
not
serve out the remainder of their respective terms
but shall
serve only until their successors are elected and
qualified. The General Assembly shall
provide by law the procedure for the election of members and for filling
vacancies on the board. Members shall serve for terms of
five
two
years and until their successors are elected and qualified."
SECTION
2.
The
above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as
provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot
submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon
the following:
|
"( ) YES
( ) NO
|
Shall
the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that members of the
State Transportation Board shall be elected to serve for a term of two
years?"
|
All
persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote
"Yes." All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment
shall vote "No." If
such
amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution,
it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.
