Florida Senate - 2010                                    SM 2222
       
       
       
       By Senator Thrasher
       
       
       
       
       8-01520-10                                            20102222__
    1                           Senate Memorial                         
    2         A memorial to the Congress of the United States,
    3         petitioning that a convention be called pursuant to
    4         Article V of the United States Constitution to
    5         consider amending the United States Constitution to
    6         limit the terms of members of the Congress of the
    7         United States to 12 years; providing that the purview
    8         of such convention be limited strictly to the
    9         consideration of this amendment; providing that this
   10         application to the Congress be a continuing
   11         application until the convention herein applied for is
   12         convened.
   13  
   14  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         That pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the
   17  United States, the Legislature of the State of Florida does
   18  hereby apply to the Congress of the United States for a
   19  convention to consider the following amendment to the United
   20  States Constitution:
   21  
   22         No person may appear on the ballot for re
   23         election to the office of Representative or Senator
   24         who, by the end of the current term of office, will
   25         have served or, but for resignation, would have served
   26         in that office for twelve consecutive years.
   27  
   28         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the purview of any convention
   29  called by the Congress pursuant to this memorial be strictly
   30  limited to the consideration of an amendment of the nature as
   31  herein proposed.
   32         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application by the
   33  Legislature of the State of Florida constitutes a continuing
   34  application pursuant to Article V of the United States
   35  Constitution, until such time as two-thirds of the Legislatures
   36  of the several states have made similar applications and the
   37  convention herein applied for is convened.
   38         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
   39  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
   40  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
   41  United States House of Representatives, to each member of the
   42  Florida delegation to the United States Congress, and to the
   43  presiding officer of each house of each state legislature in the
   44  United States.