Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Article THIRTEENTH

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 THIRTEENTH Revisors’ compilation incorporating extant amendments; publisher convenience version.

ARTICLE THIRTEENTH.
OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
(Method of convening by vote of general assembly.)
Sec. 1. The general assembly may, upon roll call, by a yea vote of at least two-thirds
of the total membership of each house, provide for the convening of a constitutional
convention to amend or revise the constitution of the state not earlier than ten years
from the date of convening any prior convention.
(Method of convening by vote of electors.)
Sec. 2. The question “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise
the Constitution of the State?” shall be submitted to all the electors of the state at
the general election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the
even-numbered year next succeeding the expiration of a period of twenty years from
the date of convening of the last convention called to revise or amend the constitution

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OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
INCORPORATING ALL EXTANT AMENDMENTS
of the state, including the Constitutional Convention of 1965, or next succeeding the
expiration of a period of twenty years from the date of submission of such a question
to all electors of the state, whichever date shall last occur. If a majority of the electors
voting on the question shall signify “yes”, the general assembly shall provide for such
convention as provided in Section 3 of this article.
(Selection of membership, date of convening.)
Sec. 3. In providing for the convening of a constitutional convention to amend or
revise the constitution of the state the general assembly shall, upon roll call, by a yea
vote of at least two-thirds of the total membership of each house, prescribe by law the
manner of selection of the membership of such convention, the date of convening of
such convention, which shall be not later than one year from the date of the roll call
vote under Section 1 of this article or one year from the date of the election under
Section 2 of this article, as the case may be, and the date for final adjournment of such
convention.
(Submission of proposals to electors, approval, effective date.)
Sec. 4. Proposals of any constitutional convention to amend or revise the consti-
tution of the state shall be submitted to all the electors of the state not later than two
months after final adjournment of the convention, either as a whole or in such parts
and with such alternatives as the convention may determine. Any proposal of the con-
vention to amend or revise the constitution of the state submitted to such electors in
accordance with this section and approved by a majority of such electors voting on
the question shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of this constitution.
Such proposals when so approved shall take effect thirty days after the date of the vote
thereon unless otherwise provided in the proposal.

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

ARTICLE THIRTEENTH.
OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.
(Method of convening by vote of general assembly.)
Sec. 1. The general assembly may, upon roll call, by a yea vote of at least two-thirds
of the total membership of each house, provide for the convening of a constitutional
convention to amend or revise the constitution of the state not earlier than ten years
from the date of convening any prior convention.
(Method of convening by vote of electors.)
Sec. 2. The question “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise
the Constitution of the State?” shall be submitted to all the electors of the state at
the general election held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the
even-numbered year next succeeding the expiration of a period of twenty years from
the date of convening of the last convention called to revise or amend the constitution
of the state, including the Constitutional Convention of 1965, or next succeeding the
expiration of a period of twenty years from the date of submission of such a question
to all electors of the state, whichever date shall last occur. If a majority of the electors
voting on the question shall signify “yes”, the general assembly shall provide for such
convention as provided in Section 3 of this article.
(Selection of membership, date of convening.)
Sec. 3. In providing for the convening of a constitutional convention to amend or
revise the constitution of the state the general assembly shall, upon roll call, by a yea
vote of at least two-thirds of the total membership of each house, prescribe by law the
manner of selection of the membership of such convention, the date of convening of

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such convention, which shall be not later than one year from the date of the roll call
vote under Section 1 of this article or one year from the date of the election under
Section 2 of this article, as the case may be, and the date for final adjournment of such
convention.
(Submission of proposals to electors, approval, effective date.)
Sec. 4. Proposals of any constitutional convention to amend or revise the consti-
tution of the state shall be submitted to all the electors of the state not later than two
months after final adjournment of the convention, either as a whole or in such parts
and with such alternatives as the convention may determine. Any proposal of the con-
vention to amend or revise the constitution of the state submitted to such electors in
accordance with this section and approved by a majority of such electors voting on
the question shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of this constitution.
Such proposals when so approved shall take effect thirty days after the date of the vote
thereon unless otherwise provided in the proposal.