Term Limits

legal-and-governance

A grant third term refers to a third consecutive period in which an elected or appointed official, or the recipient of a grant-making role, serves in office or under a specific...

Guides And Explainers

The short answer is that there are no term limits for the Texas lieutenant governor under state law or the state constitution. Because the office is elected by the Texas Senate...

government-rules

Washington state law limits the governor to two consecutive terms, after which a governor must wait before seeking office again. This evergreen explainer covers the constitution...

government-explainer

A state representative is a legislator elected to serve in a state’s lower house of the state legislature. The term of a state representative refers to the fixed period they h...

government

Term limits in Mexico regulate how long elected officials may serve in executive and legislative offices, shaping incentives, accountability, and institutional stability. At the...

government-and-civics

In the United States Congress, a House of Representatives term is fixed at two years, with no statutory limit on the number of terms a member may serve. Elected in even-numbered...

civic-governance

In the U.S. Congress, a representative serves a term of two years, with all 435 seats up for election every even-numbered year. At the state level, term lengths vary by state an...