At the next general election for State and County officers ensuing after any such apportionment, Representatives shall be elected in accordance therewith, Senators shall be elected henceforth according to the apportionment now existing, and their respective terms of office shall begin on January 1 next following. Senators shall be elected for a term of four years at the expiration of their present terms of office. [As amended by Const. Amends. 23 and 45.]
Publisher's Notes. Although Ark. Const. Amend. 45 amended this section to read as it appears above, the court held in Williams v. Elrod, 244 Ark. 671, 426 S.W.2d 797 (1968) that the lot drawing provisions of Const., Amend. 23 were not in conflict with the provisions of Const., Amend. 45 and are still valid. As amended by Const., Amend. 23, this section read: "At the next general election for State and County officers ensuing after such apportionment, senators and representatives shall be elected in accordance therewith and their respective terms of office shall begin on January 1 next following. At the first regular session succeeding any apportionment so made, the Senate shall be divided into two classes by lot, eighteen of whom shall serve a period of two years and the remaining seventeen for four years, after which all shall be elected for four years until the next reapportionment hereunder."