Bill Text: TX HJR80 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution to limit the terms of office of members of Congress.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select [HJR80 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR80-Introduced.html

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85R9809 TJB-F
By: Cain H.J.R. No. 80

A JOINT RESOLUTION
applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention
under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited
purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution to limit the
terms of office of members of Congress.
WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution provides
that on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the
several states, the United States Congress shall call a convention
for proposing an amendment to that constitution; now, therefore, be
it
RESOLVED, That, the 85th Texas Legislature hereby makes an
application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the
Constitution of the United States of America, to call a convention
limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States of America to set a limit on the number of terms that a person
may be elected as a Member of the United States House of
Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms that a
person may be elected as a Member of the United States Senate; and,
be it further
RESOLVED, That, the Secretary of State is hereby directed to
transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary
of the Senate of the United States and to the Speaker, Clerk and
Judiciary Committee Chairman of the House of Representatives of the
Congress of the United States, and copies to the members of the said
Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to
transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the
legislative houses in the several States, requesting their
cooperation; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That, this application shall be considered as
covering the same subject matter as the applications from other
States to Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number
of terms that a person may be elected to the House of
Representatives of the Congress of the United States and the Senate
of the United States; and this application shall be aggregated with
same for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states
necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention on this
subject, but shall not be aggregated with any other applications on
any other subject; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That, this application constitutes a continuing
application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the
United States of America until the legislatures of at least
two-thirds of the several states have made applications on the same
subject.