[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 16 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 16

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may 
                                 serve.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2003

    Mr. Platts introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
               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 number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may 
                                 serve.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within five years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article --

    ``Section 1. No person who has been a Senator for two full 
consecutive terms shall again be a Senator until the date that is one 
year after the end of such second full consecutive term.
    ``Section 2. No person who has been a Representative for six full 
consecutive terms shall again be a Representative until the date that 
is one year after the end of the sixth full consecutive term.
    ``Section 3. For the purposes of this article, any term that began 
before the date of the ratification of this article shall not be 
included in determining the number of full consecutive terms that a 
person has been a Senator or Representative.''.
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