GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2021

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 172

Corrected Copy 3/2/21

 

Sponsors: Representatives Clampitt, McNeely, Sasser, and Moore (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site. Referred to: Judiciary 1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

March 1, 2021

A JOINT RESOLUTION applying to congress for an article v CONvENTION of the states for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the united states constitution to impose term limits on members of congress.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

SECTION 1.  The legislature of North Carolina 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.

SECTION 2.  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.

SECTION 3.  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.

SECTION 4.  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 made applications on the same subject.

SECTION 5.  This resolution is effective upon ratification.