[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 13 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 13

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
    limit the number of terms a Representative or Senator may serve.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

   Mr. O'Rourke 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 to 
    limit the number of terms a Representative or Senator 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 seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. No person who has been a Senator for two terms shall 
again be eligible for election or appointment to the Senate.
    ``Section 2. No person who has been a Representative for four terms 
shall again be eligible for election to the House of Representatives.
    ``Section 3. For purposes of this article, any term a person serves 
as a Senator or Representative to fill a vacancy shall not be included 
in determining the number of terms that the person has been a Senator 
or Representative unless the period of time for which the person fills 
the vacancy is greater than three years in the case of a Senator or 
greater than one year in the case of a Representative.
    ``Section 4. 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 terms that a person has been a 
Senator or Representative.''.
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