[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2674 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2674

 To provide for a national advisory referendum on an amendment to the 
    Constitution to limit the terms of Representatives and Senators.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 1993

 Mr. Hoekstra introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for a national advisory referendum on an amendment to the 
    Constitution to limit the terms of Representatives and Senators.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NATIONAL ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON LIMITING THE TERMS OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS.

    (a) In General.--Each State shall include on the general election 
ballot for the year 1994 an advisory referendum containing the question 
set forth in subsection (b).
    (b) Question.--The question referred to in subsection (a) is as 
follows: ``Should the Congress propose an amendment to the Constitution 
to limit Representatives to 6 consecutive 2-year terms and to limit 
Senators to 2 consecutive 6-year terms?''.

SEC. 2. COMPILATION AND SUBMISSION OF REFERENDUM RESULTS.

    The Secretary of State (or the equivalent official) of each State 
shall report to the Federal Election Commission the results of the 
referendum provided for in section 1. The Commission shall compile the 
results and submit them to the Congress.

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