An Iowa legislator is working on moving a bill through the Senate that would put an endpoint on the amount of years a term could be served for in state elected officials.

According to Iowa District 14 Senator Sarah Trone-Garriott, Senate Joint Resolution 10 is a bill she’s proposing to the legislature about placing a maximum number of years that a person can serve a term in state government as an elected official. She elaborates that many people have occupied the same positions for way too long and believes that fresh perspectives are needed.

“It’s shutting out a lot of new voices that could come into the process. When you have someone serving for 20 years, I mean that’s a lot of time that other people never got a chance, and so we could use some fresh voices, some new perspectives in state government, and just give people some time to get your thing done and then you need to move on.”

Trone-Garriott suggests putting 12 years as the maximum amount of time that a person can serve in the legislature as a representative or a senator. The bill was introduced on March 5th, and it passed the Senate State Government Subcommittee on March 11th, and is now awaiting approval from the full Senate State Government Committee.