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Constitutional Convention Seeks 15-Month Extension, $200K in Additional Funding to Complete Draft

Only two days before the Sixth Constitutional Convention was due to submit its revised draft constitution, Chairman Usie Richards appeared before the Committee of the Whole to request an extension.  Sworn in in January 2025, Mr. Richards testified that the Convention began the “task of utilizing, revising, modifying, substituting or deleting parts of both the revised Organic Act of 1954 and the Fifth Constitutional Convention draft document in March of 2025.” As that process unfolded, however, the Convention’s delegates determined that a timeline extension for both the submission of the draft document to the governor and the date for public vote on the proposed draft would be needed, he explained. The requested extensions push the various deadlines back by well over a year.  First, the delegates want to change the submission date for the draft document from October 31, 2025, to February 28, 2027. The launching of the “timely notice of the referendum” will subsequently need to change...