SCR 1005 — Article V convention; term limits

SCR1005 - 532R - IS Ver       REFERENCESenate TITLE:Engrossed       State of Arizona Senate Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session       SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION       A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION   Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Arizona;

Articleamending Varticle convention;II, section 34, Constitution of Arizona;

termamending limitsarticle  XIII,  section  5, StateConstitution of ArizonaArizona; Senate Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session   SCR 1005   Introduced by Senators Petersen:

Allenrelating S, Barto, Bowie, Burges, Contreras, Dalessandro, Fann, Kavanagh, Kerr, Peshlakai, Smith, Worsley     A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION   applying to themunicipal congresscorporations. of the united states to call a convention for proposing an amendment to the constitution of the united states to set term limits for United States representatives and united States senators.

      (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)   Whereas,1.  Article theII, founderssection of34, the Constitution of theArizona, Unitedis Statesproposed empoweredto statebe legislatorsamended toas befollows guardiansif ofapproved libertyby againstthe futurevoters abusesand ofon powerproclamation byof the federalGovernor: government;

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2.  ThatEND_STATUTE this3.  The applicationSecretary constitutesof aState continuingshall applicationsubmit inthis accordanceproposition withto Article V of the Constitutionvoters ofat the Unitednext Statesgeneral untilelection atas leastprovided two-thirdsby ofarticle theXXI, legislaturesConstitution of theArizona. several states have made application on the same subjects.

3.  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 United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, 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.

4.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker, Clerk and Judiciary Committee Chairman of the United States House of Representatives, each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona and the presiding officers of each house of the several state legislatures, requesting their cooperation.