Bill Text: FL S2222 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Congressional Term Limits [GPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Ethics and Elections [S2222 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S2222-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SM 2222 
 
By Senator Thrasher 
8-01520-10                                            20102222__ 
1                           Senate 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 
5         consider amending the United States Constitution to 
6         limit the terms of members of the Congress of the 
7         United States to 12 years; providing that the purview 
8         of such convention be limited strictly to the 
9         consideration of this amendment; providing that this 
10         application to the Congress be a continuing 
11         application until the convention herein applied for is 
12         convened. 
13 
14  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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16         That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the 
17  United States, the Legislature of the State of Florida does 
18  hereby apply to the Congress of the United States for a 
19  convention to consider the following amendment to the United 
20  States Constitution: 
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22         No person may appear on the ballot for re 
23         election to the office of Representative or Senator 
24         who, by the end of the current term of office, will 
25         have served or, but for resignation, would have served 
26         in that office for twelve consecutive years. 
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28         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the purview of any convention 
29  called by the Congress pursuant to this memorial be strictly 
30  limited to the consideration of an amendment of the nature as 
31  herein proposed. 
32         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application by the 
33  Legislature of the State of Florida constitutes a continuing 
34  application pursuant to Article V of the United States 
35  Constitution, until such time as two-thirds of the Legislatures 
36  of the several states have made similar applications and the 
37  convention herein applied for is convened. 
38         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be 
39  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the 
40  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the 
41  United States House of Representatives, to each member of the 
42  Florida delegation to the United States Congress, and to the 
43  presiding officer of each house of each state legislature in the 
44  United States.