(Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
(. North Dakota Monitor) – A resolution to change North Dakota’s term limits law failed in the House on a 46-43 vote.
The resolution received a majority of the votes in the chamber, but failed to cross the elected majority threshold of 48 votes to be passed.
Senate Resolution 4008, sponsored by Sen. Michael Dwyer, R-Bismarck, would allow lawmakers to serve four complete terms, a total of 16 years, in either chamber of the Legislature. It also clarifies a partial term of a lawmaker would not count against the term limit.
North Dakota voters in 2022 passed a measure that put term limits for state legislators into the North Dakota Constitution. Lawmakers are now limited to serving up to eight years in the House and up to eight years in the Senate.
