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'''Model Application Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to Propose A Congressional Term Limits Amendment''' was adopted by ALEC's [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_International_Relations_Task_Force Federalism and Internal Relations Task Force] at the Annual Meeting on July 28, 2016, approved by the Board of Directors on September 12, 2016. (Accessed October 24, 2016).

==ALEC Bill Text==

Summary

This model policy serves as an application to Congress to call an amendments convention pursuant to Article V of the U.S. Constitution. This convention for proposing amendments would be limited to proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

<u>Section 1.</u>

The legislature of [INSERT STATE NAME] 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.

<u>Section 2.</u>

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.

<u>Section 3.</u>

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.

<u>Section 4.</u>

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 have made applications on the same subject.