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1		-	~~House Engrossed~~ congressional term limits; convention State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 ~~HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION~~ 2041 A CONCURRENT resolution applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms of office of members of the United States House of representatives and the United States Senate. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
	1	+	REFERENCE TITLE: congressional term limits; convention State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HCR 2041 Introduced by Representatives Montenegro: Bliss, Carbone, Carter N, Carter P, Diaz, Gress, Hernandez A, Hernandez C, Hernandez L, Livingston, Nguyen, Tsosie, Volk, Weninger, Wilmeth; Senators Diaz, Kuby, Miranda, Petersen, Shamp A CONCURRENT resolution applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms of office of members of the United States House of representatives and the United States Senate. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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55	66		A CONCURRENT resolution
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59	70		applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms of office of members of the United States House of representatives and the United States Senate.
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71	80		Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides the states with the authority to call a convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to be ratified by the legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the several states on application by at least two-thirds of the states; and Whereas, this power provides the States with the leverage needed to force Congress to act when it otherwise does not want to; and Whereas, the citizens of the State of Arizona and twenty-two other states, having passed statutes or state constitutional amendments placing term limits on members of Congress, were overruled by the United States Supreme Court; and Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Arizona hereby joins with other states in instructing Congress to draft a term limits amendment and send it to the States for ratification, failing which the States will act on their own; and Whereas, the Arizona Legislature, a body of citizen legislators, desires to restore rotation in office for members serving in the Congress of the United States. Therefore Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring: 1. That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the Legislature of the State of Arizona formally applies to the Congress of the United States to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms a person may be elected as a Member of the United States House of Representatives and as a Member of the United States Senate. 2. That this application 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 that this application be aggregated with the applications of other states for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention for the purpose of setting term limits on the members of Congress, but that this application not be aggregated with any other application on any other subject. 3. That this resolution constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject. 4. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona, and the presiding officer of each legislative house in each state, requesting their cooperation.
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73	82		Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides the states with the authority to call a convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to be ratified by the legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the several states on application by at least two-thirds of the states; and
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75	84		Whereas, this power provides the States with the leverage needed to force Congress to act when it otherwise does not want to; and
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77	86		Whereas, the citizens of the State of Arizona and twenty-two other states, having passed statutes or state constitutional amendments placing term limits on members of Congress, were overruled by the United States Supreme Court; and
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79	88		Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Arizona hereby joins with other states in instructing Congress to draft a term limits amendment and send it to the States for ratification, failing which the States will act on their own; and
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81	90		Whereas, the Arizona Legislature, a body of citizen legislators, desires to restore rotation in office for members serving in the Congress of the United States.
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85	94		Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:
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87	96		1. That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the Legislature of the State of Arizona formally applies to the Congress of the United States to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms a person may be elected as a Member of the United States House of Representatives and as a Member of the United States Senate.
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89	98		2. That this application 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 that this application be aggregated with the applications of other states for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention for the purpose of setting term limits on the members of Congress, but that this application not be aggregated with any other application on any other subject.
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91	100		3. That this resolution constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject.
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93	102		4. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona, and the presiding officer of each legislative house in each state, requesting their cooperation.