Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Article TWELFTH

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Article TWELFTH Revisors’ compilation incorporating extant amendments; publisher convenience version.

ARTICLE TWELFTH.
OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
(Method of proposing and approving amendments.)
Amendments to this constitution may be proposed by any member of the senate or
house of representatives. An amendment so proposed, approved upon roll call by a yea
vote of at least a majority, but by less than three-fourths, of the total membership of
each house, shall be published with the laws which may have been passed at the same
session and be continued to the regular session of the general assembly elected at the
next general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November in
an even-numbered year. An amendment so proposed, approved upon roll call by a yea
vote of at least three-fourths of the total membership of each house, or any amendment
which, having been continued from the previous general assembly, is again approved
upon roll call by a yea vote of at least a majority of the total membership of each
house, shall, by the secretary of the state, be transmitted to the town clerk in each
town in the state, whose duty it shall be to present the same to the electors thereof for
their consideration at the next general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first
Monday of November in an even-numbered year. If it shall appear, in a manner to be
provided by law, that a majority of the electors present and voting on such amendment
at such election shall have approved such amendment, the same shall be valid, to all
intents and purposes, as a part of this constitution. Electors voting by absentee ballot
under the provisions of the statutes shall be considered to be present and voting.
Historical Note: This Article, as printed here, incorporates Article VI., of the Amendments to the Constitution of the
State of Connecticut. Said Article VI., was adopted on November 27, 1974, and made minor changes in wording involv-
ing the placement of the word “next”, replacing “the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday
of November in the next even-numbered year” with “the next general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first
Monday of November in an even-numbered year” in two occurrences.

Article TWELFTH Original 1965 text and publisher annotations; retained historical context.

ARTICLE TWELFTH.
OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
(Method of proposing and approving amendments.)
1 Amendments to this constitution may be proposed by any member of the senate
or house of representatives. An amendment so proposed, approved upon roll call by a
yea vote of at least a majority, but by less than three-fourths, of the total membership
of each house, shall be published with the laws which may have been passed at the
same session and be continued to the regular session of the general assembly elected
at the general election to be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of Novem-
ber in the next even-numbered year. An amendment so proposed, approved upon roll
call by a yea vote of at least three-fourths of the total membership of each house, or
any amendment which, having been continued from the previous general assembly, is
again approved upon roll call by a yea vote of at least a majority of the total member-
ship of each house, shall, by the secretary of the state, be transmitted to the town clerk
in each town in the state, whose duty it shall be to present the same to the electors
thereof for their consideration at the general election to be held on the Tuesday after
the first Monday of November in the next even-numbered year. If it shall appear, in
a manner to be provided by law, that a majority of the electors present and voting on
such amendment at such election shall have approved such amendment, the same shall
be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of this constitution. Electors voting by
absentee ballot under the provisions of the statutes shall be considered to be present
and voting.
1 Amended by Article VI., of the Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut.