[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 137 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 137

    Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
  authorizing the territories of the United States to cast electoral 
                    votes in presidential elections.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2018

   Ms. Bordallo submitted 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 
  authorizing the territories of the United States to cast electoral 
                    votes in presidential elections.

    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 hereby 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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. If the number of persons in a territory of the United 
States exceeds thirty thousand, the territory shall appoint, in such 
manner as its territorial legislature may direct, a number of electors 
of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of 
Representatives to the House of Representatives to which such territory 
would be entitled if it were a State. Such electors shall be in 
addition to those appointed by the States and the District of Columbia, 
but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of 
President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State. Such 
electors shall meet in the territory in which they were appointed and 
perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
    ``Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article 
by appropriate legislation.''.
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