AN ACT PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE DELAWARE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to do the following: (1) Make certain limited technical amendments to the Delaware Constitution without the concurrence of the next General Assembly. (2) Make necessary technical corrections identified by the Code Revisors and the Division of Legislative Services during the incorporation of amendments to the Delaware Constitution enacted during the first session of the 153rd General Assembly. Specifically, Section 1 of this Act authorizes a single General Assembly to make the following limited technical amendments to the Delaware Constitution without the concurrence of the next General Assembly if the amendment is agreed to by three-fourths of all the members elected to each House: (1) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered Articles, Sections, subsections, or paragraphs. (2) Substitute the proper Article, Section, subsection, or paragraph designation for “this Act,” “the preceding section”, or similar references. (3) Ensure numbers are written in their numerical form rather than word form. (4) Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity. (5) Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors. (6) Use gender silent techniques to ensure that a masculine or feminine pronoun is not used except when it only applies to 1 gender. (7) Make corrections needed following the enactment of 2 or more amendments to the same provision of this Constitution that result in grammatically incorrect language or do not fulfill the intent of one or more of the amendments. (8) Make any other purely formal or clerical change. These types of changes are intended to be consistent with the Code Revisors’ editorial duties and powers related to the Delaware Code. Additionally, Sections 2 through 12 of this Act makes the following specific technical corrections: (1) In Sections 2 and 3 of this Act, makes changes to §§ 17A and 17 B of Article II by removing an unnecessary “by” before “frat