LITTLE ROCK -- It took him four tries, but a former state representative has at last got a constitutional amendment proposal to increase term limits by the attorney general.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel approved on Friday an amendment proposal submitted by former Rep. Charles Ormond, D-Morrilton. Ormond had made three previously unsuccesful attempts to put such changes to a vote.

McDaniel approved the ballot title's popular name and full title in Opinion No. 2007-159 released Friday. The amendment would increase Arkansas House members' maximum terms from three of two years to three of three years.

Arkansas state senators would also have their terms lengthened from two of four years to three of four years under Ormond's proposed change. County officials' terms would extend to four years while state Supreme Court Justices would be limited to two six-year terms.

Ormond will now need to sign up 77,468 registered Arkansas voters, according to an NWAOnline report. To get his proposal on the Nov. 7, 2008 ballot, Ormond must collect the signatures by July 7, 2008.

Ormond's previous three attempts to change term limits were thwarted by the attorney general's office "due to ambiguities in the text of your proposed amendments," McDaniel stated in his opinion.