{"id":246778,"date":"2013-03-20T02:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T07:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246778"},"modified":"2013-03-20T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:53:02","slug":"senate-approves-eltifes-term-limits-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246778","title":{"rendered":"Senate Approves Eltife&#8217;s Term Limits Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/thumb_Kevin_Eltife_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/thumb_Kevin_Eltife_4.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Kevin_Eltife_4\" width=\"112\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-246594\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Statewide officeholders would be limited to two consecutive terms under a constitutional amendment proposed by Tyler State Senator Kevin Eltife that\u2019s now advancing in the Capitol. In a 27-4 vote on Tuesday, the Texas Senate approved the amendment that would apply to future governors, attorneys general, and state agency commissioners. It would not apply to judges or the legislators themselves. It also would not apply to current officeholders such as Governor Rick Perry, who has been elected to three consecutive terms since 2000. Eltife said his proposal would bring \u201cnew ideas\u201d to government. He ran for the legislature after local term limits prevented him for running for re-election as mayor of Tyler. Republican Sen. Craig Estes of Wichita Falls put up a fight against the proposal, saying it would take power away from voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Statewide officeholders would be limited to two consecutive terms under a constitutional amendment proposed by Tyler State Senator Kevin Eltife that\u2019s now advancing in the Capitol. In a 27-4 vote on Tuesday, the Texas Senate approved the amendment that would apply to future governors, attorneys general, and state agency commissioners. It would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=246778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate Approves Eltife&#8217;s Term Limits Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 02:28:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246914,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246778\/revisions\/246914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}