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

Constitutional Amendment

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the Senate to two terms and Members of the House of Representatives to six terms.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 50 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 50

  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 31, 2017

 Mr. Labrador (for himself, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. 
 DesJarlais, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, 
 Mr. Babin, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Budd, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Hudson, 
    and Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia) 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 six terms 
shall again be eligible for election to the House of Representatives.
    ``Section 3. For the 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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