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(By: Jeff Beach. North Dakota Monitor) – A North Dakota Senate resolution to make changes to the term limits rules in the state constitution passed by a single vote.
If Senate Concurrent Resolution 4008 is approved by the House, term limits could be back for a statewide vote in 2026, though lawmakers have indicated they expect the resolution to be challenged in court.
While the Legislature can usually pass resolutions to put changes to the constitution to a statewide vote, term limits appear to be an exception.
North Dakota voters imposed term limits on state legislators by passing a citizen-initiated ballot measure in 2022. That ballot measure also said the only way to undo the term limits in the constitution would be through another citizen-initiated measure, not through the Legislature.
The measure approved by voters limits lawmakers to serving up to eight years in the House and up to eight years in the Senate.
