Charter Amendment - Lifetime Term Limits for Mayor and Members of the Board of Supervisors

FILE NO. 251245 (FIRST DRAFT)

Describing and setting forth a proposal to the voters to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, at an election to be held on June 2, 2026, to change the current two-term limits for the office of Mayor and the office of Member of the Board of Supervisors from consecutive term limits to lifetime term limits.

Section 1. The Board of Supervisors hereby submits to the qualified voters of the City and County, at an election to be held on June 2, 2026, a proposal to amend the Charter of the City and County by revising Sections 2.101 and 3.101, to read as follows:

NOTE: Unchanged Charter text and uncodified text are in plain font. Additions are single-underline italics. Deletions are strikethrough. Asterisks (* * *) indicate the omission of unchanged Charter subsections.

SEC. 2.101. TERM OF OFFICE.

(a) Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be elected at a general election and shall serve a four-year term commencing on the eighth day in January following election and until a successor qualifies.The respective terms of office of the members of the Board of Supervisors in effect on the date this Charter is adopted shall continue.

(b) No person elected or appointed as a Supervisor may serve as such a Supervisor for more than two successive four-year terms.For purposes of this Section 2.101, a part of a term that exceeds two years shall count as a four-year term; a part of a term that is two years or less shall not.Any person appointed, elected, or any combination thereof to the office of Supervisor to complete in excess of two years of a four-year term shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to have served one full term. No person having served two successive four-year terms may serve as a Supervisor, either by election or appointment, until at least four years after the expiration of the second successive term in office. Any Supervisor who resigns with less than two full years remaining until the expiration of the term shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have served a full four-year term.

(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), any person who is holding the office of Supervisor as of June 2, 2026, and who has served in the office in excess of the lifetime term limit in subsection (b) or who will have served in the office in excess of the lifetime term limit before completion of their term of office, may complete their term of office. In addition, any person who is elected as a Supervisor at the election on June 2, 2026, may complete the term of office for which they were elected, regardless of whether their holding the office would otherwise violate the lifetime term limit.

SEC. 3.101. TERM OF OFFICE.

The Mayor shall serve a four-year term. No person shall serve as mayor for more than two successive four-year terms. For purposes of this Section 3.101, a A part of a term that exceeds two years shall count as a full four-year term*; a part of a term that is two years or less shall not*. There shall be no limit on the non-successive terms that a person may serve.

APPROVED AS TO FORM: DAVID CHIU, City Attorney

By: /s/ Bradley A. Russi BRADLEY A. RUSSI Deputy City Attorney