[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 141 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 141

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 require the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress for 
              the admission of new States into the Union.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 2026

    Mr. Barrett 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 
 require the concurrence of two-thirds of both Houses of Congress for 
              the admission of new States into the Union.

    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:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. New States may be admitted by the Congress, on the 
Concurrence of two thirds of both Houses, into this Union; but no new 
State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other 
State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, 
or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the 
States concerned as well as of the Congress.
    ``Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have 
been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures 
of the several States within seven years from the date of its 
submission by the Congress.''.
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