[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 18 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 18

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
           limit the terms of office for Members of Congress.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Coats introduced the following joint resolution; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
           limit the terms of office for Members of Congress.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article is 
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to 
be valid only if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the 
several States within seven years after the date of its submission by 
the Congress:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section  1. No person may serve any portion of a term as 
Representative if, taking into account only service on or after the 
date on which this section takes effect, at the completion of that term 
the person would have served as a Representative for more than six full 
terms (not including any part of a partial term to which the person may 
have been elected or appointed).
    ``Section 2. No person may serve any portion of a term as Senator 
if, taking into account only service on or after the date on which this 
section takes effect, at the completion of that term the person would 
have served as a Senator for more than two full terms (not including 
any part of a partial term to which the person may have been elected or 
appointed).
    ``Section 3. This article shall take effect at noon of the first 
January 3 that occurs more than one year after the date of adoption of 
this article and on which terms of Representatives begin.''.

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