*SJ9611*
March 10, 2025
ENGROSSED
SENATE JOINT
RESOLUTION No. 21
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DIGEST OF SJ 21 (Updated March 10, 2025 10:49 am - DI 140)
Citations Affected: Article V of the Constitution of the United States.
Synopsis: Terms of members of Congress. Applies to Congress for a
Convention for proposing Amendments under Article V of the
Constitution of the United States to provide limits to the number of
terms that an individual may serve in the United States House of
Representatives and in the United States Senate.
Effective: A Convention for proposing Amendments is called when
two-thirds of the state legislatures make application to the Congress to
call a Convention for proposing Amendments to consider an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Zay, Young M, Johnson T, Bohacek
(HOUSE SPONSORS — HALL, KARICKHOFF, JETER, MILLER K)
January 8, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Elections.
January 14, 2025, reported favorably — Do Pass.
January 23, 2025, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
January 27, 2025, read third time, passed. Yeas 31, nays 18.
HOUSE ACTION
March 3, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary.
March 10, 2025, reported — Do Pass.
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First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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ENGROSSED
SENATE JOINT
RESOLUTION No. 21
A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress to call a Convention
for proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
concerning congressional term limits.
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. That the General Assembly of the State of Indiana
2 makes application to the Congress of the United States for a
3 Convention for proposing Amendments under Article V of the
4 Constitution of the United States to propose amendments to the
5 Constitution of the United States.
6 SECTION 2. That such a convention called under Article V be
7 limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United
8 States that do both of the following:
9 (1) Set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be
10 elected as a Member of the United States House of
11 Representatives.
12 (2) Set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be
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1 elected as a Member of the United States Senate.
2 SECTION 3. That this application shall be considered as covering
3 the same subject matter as the applications from other States to
4 Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number of terms that
5 a person may be elected to the House of Representatives of the
6 Congress of the United States and the Senate of the United States.
7 SECTION 4. That this application shall be aggregated with
8 applications from the other States for the same subject for the purpose
9 of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require Congress to
10 call a limited convention on this subject, but shall not be aggregated
11 with any other applications on any other subject.
12 SECTION 5. That this application constitutes a continuing
13 application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the
14 United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several
15 states have made applications on the same subject.
16 SECTION 6. That certified copies of this resolution be sent to each
17 of the following:
18 (1) Each of the presiding officers of the Congress.
19 (2) The Secretary of the United States Senate and the Clerk of the
20 United States House of Representatives.
21 (3) The presiding officer of each chamber of each state legislature
22 in the United States.
23 (4) The members of the Congress from Indiana.
24 SECTION 7. That sending certified copies of this resolution to the
25 presiding officer of each chamber of each state legislature in the United
26 States serves as an invitation to the legislatures of those states to join
27 in this call for an Article V convention.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Elections, to which was
referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with
the recommendation that said resolution DO PASS.
(Reference is to SJ 21 as introduced.)
GASKILL, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred
Senate Joint Resolution 21, has had the same under consideration and
begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said resolution do pass.
(Reference is to SJ 21 as printed January 15, 2025.)
JETER
Committee Vote: Yeas 10, Nays 2
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