BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN

F, JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin

LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas

‘STEVE CHABOT, Ohio

DARRELL E. ISSA, California

STEVE KING, lowa

TRENT FRANKS, Arizona

LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas

JIM JORDAN, Ohio

TED POE, Texas

JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania

TREY GOWDY, South Carolina

RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho

BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas

DOUG COLLINS, Georgia

RON DESANTIS, Florida

KEN BUCK, Colorado

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas

MARTHA ROBY, Alabama

MATT GAETZ, Florida

MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana

ANDY BIGGS, Arizona

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 RAYBURN House OFFice BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6216
(202) 225-3951

http://www. house.govijudiciary

June 5, 2017

The Honorable Karen Haas
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
RANKING MEMBER

JERROLD NADLER, New York
ZOE LOFGREN, California

SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas

STEVE COHEN, Tennessee

HENRY C. “HANK” JOHNSON, JR., Georgia
TED DEUTCH, Florida

LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois

KAREN BASS, California

CEDRIC L. RICHMOND, Louisiana

HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island

ERIC SWALWELL, California

TED LIEU, California

JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland

PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington

BRAD SCHNEIDER, Illinois

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Hawaii, received by the House of Representatives in the year 2017, as
purporting to be an application of the State legislature calling for a convention for proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to Article V, and request that you make it publicly

available.

Sincerely,

Prk ocd latte

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 H. R. N O. i D.1
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO RESTORE FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS.

WHEREAS, according to The Federalist No. 52 by James
Madison, the framers of the Constitution of the United States
intended that the Congress of the United States should be
"dependent on the people alone"; and

WHEREAS, the "dependency on the people alone" has evolved
into a dependency on powerful special interests that act through
campaigns or third-party groups, thereby creating a fundamental
imbalance in our representative democracy; and

WHEREAS, Americans across the political spectrum agree that
elections -in the United States should be free from the
disproportional influence of special interests and fair enough
that any citizen can be elected into office; and

WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution
requires Congress to convene a convention for proposing
amendments to the federal Constitution on the application of
two-thirds of the legislatures of the several states; and

WHEREAS, the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of
Hawaii desires to restore balance and integrity to our elections
by proposing a federal constitutional amendment to permanently
protect free and fair elections in the United States by
addressing issues raised by the decision of the Supreme Court of
the United States in Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), and related cases and events;
and

WHEREAS, the Twenty-ninth Legislature desires that Hawaii
have an equal number of delegates to the Convention as any other
state; provided that former or current federal office holders,
whether elected or appointed, are not eligible to serve as
delegates to the Convention; and

1 do hereby certify that the within document

is 9 full, true and correct copy of the original
on file in this office.

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WHEREAS, the Twenty-ninth Legislature shall retain the
ability to restrict or expand the authority of its delegates
within the limits expressed herein; and

WHEREAS, the Twenty-ninth Legislature intends that this
continuing application shall be considered with the applications
that have been adopted by ' the 2013-2014 Vermont Legislature, the
2013-2014 California Legislature, the Ninety-eighth Illinois
General Assembly, the 2014-2015 New Jersey Legislature, and the
2015-2016 Rhode Island Legislature, as well as all applications
that are subsequently adopted until two-thirds of the several
states have applied for, and Congress has convened, a convention
for proposing amendments to restore free and fair elections;
now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
of 2017, the Senate concurring, that the people of the State of
Hawaii speaking through its Legislature, hereby submit an
application to the United States Congress to restore free and
fair elections as described herein; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the President of the
United States; Vice President of the United States, as presiding
officer of the United States Senate; President Pro Tempore of
the United States Senate; the Minority Leader of the United
States Senate; the Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives; the Minority Leader of the United States House
of Representatives; and Hawaii's Congressional delegation.

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