First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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SENATE ENROLLED 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:
SECTION 1. That the General Assembly of the State of Indiana
makes application to the Congress of the United States for a
Convention for proposing Amendments under Article V of the
Constitution of the United States to propose amendments to the
Constitution of the United States.
SECTION 2. That such a convention called under Article V be
limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United
States that do both of the following:
(1) Set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be
elected as a Member of the United States House of
Representatives.
(2) Set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be
elected as a Member of the United States Senate.
SECTION 3. That this application shall be considered as covering
the same subject matter as the applications from other States to
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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.
SECTION 4. That this application shall be aggregated with
applications from the other States for the same subject 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 5. That this application 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 several
states have made applications on the same subject.
SECTION 6. That certified copies of this resolution be sent to each
of the following:
(1) Each of the presiding officers of the Congress.
(2) The Secretary of the United States Senate and the Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives.
(3) The presiding officer of each chamber of each state legislature
in the United States.
(4) The members of the Congress from Indiana.
SECTION 7. That sending certified copies of this resolution to the
presiding officer of each chamber of each state legislature in the United
States serves as an invitation to the legislatures of those states to join
in this call for an Article V convention.
SJ 21 President of the Senate
President Pro Tempore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Date of Passage in Senate _________________
Date of Passage in House _________________
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