ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

HCR2016: article V convention; term limits

Sponsor: Representative Townsend, LD 16

Committee on Federal Relations

Overview

Applies to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to set term limits for members of Congress.

History

Article V of the Constitution of the United States allows Congress to call a convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution states that Constitutional amendments may be proposed by either:

1) two thirds of both chambers of Congress; or

2) an application of two-thirds of state legislatures calling a convention of the states to propose amendments. (Article V, U.S. Constitution)

The U.S. Constitution states that a proposed constitutional amendment must be ratified by three- fourths of the states before it can become effective.

Provisions

1. Applies to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose an amendment to the Constitution to set term limits for United States Representatives and United States Senators.

2. States that this resolution constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject.

3. Instructs the Arizona Secretary of State to distribute copies of this resolution to the President and Secretary of the U.S. Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Chairperson of the House Committee on Judiciary, each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona, and the presiding officer of each legislative house in each state, requesting their cooperation.

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