Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to ensure that an Act of Congress that increases the number of judges comprising the Supreme Court may not take effect before the date that is 10 years after the date of the enactment of such Act.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 96

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
  ensure that an Act of Congress that increases the number of judges 
 comprising the Supreme Court may not take effect before the date that 
        is 10 years after the date of the enactment of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 2020

 Mr. Collins of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Smucker, 
 Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mr. Waltz, 
Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. John W. Rose of Tennessee, Mr. Allen, 
 Mr. Buck, and Mr. Crawford) 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 
  ensure that an Act of Congress that increases the number of judges 
 comprising the Supreme Court may not take effect before the date that 
        is 10 years after the date of the enactment of such Act.

    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:

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    ``An Act of Congress that increases the number of judges comprising 
the Supreme Court may not take effect before the date that is 10 years 
after the date of the enactment of such Act.''.
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