Bill Text: FL H0017 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congressional Term Limits

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Economic Development & Community Affairs Policy Council [H0017 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-H0017-Introduced.html

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HM 17

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
3	petitioning that a convention be called pursuant to
4	Article V of the United States Constitution to consider
5	amending the United States Constitution to limit the terms
6	of members of the Congress of the United States to 12
7	years; providing that the purview of such convention be
8	limited strictly to the consideration of this amendment;
9	providing that this application to the Congress be a
10	continuing application until the convention herein applied
11	for is convened.
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13	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15	That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the
16	United States, the Legislature of the State of Florida does
17	hereby apply to the Congress of the United States for a
18	convention to consider the following amendment to the United
19	States Constitution:
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21	No person may appear on the ballot for re-
22	election to the office of Representative or Senator
23	who, by the end of the current term of office, will
24	have served or, but for resignation, would have served
25	in that office for twelve consecutive years.
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27	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the purview of any convention
28	called by the Congress pursuant to this memorial be strictly
29	limited to the consideration of an amendment of the nature as
30	herein proposed.
31	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application by the
32	Legislature of the State of Florida constitutes a continuing
33	application pursuant to Article V of the United States
34	Constitution, until such time as two-thirds of the Legislatures
35	of the several states have made similar applications and the
36	convention herein applied for is convened.
37	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
38	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
39	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
40	United States House of Representatives, to each member of the
41	Florida delegation to the United States Congress, and to the
42	presiding officer of each house of each state legislature in the
43	United States.

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