Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

Bill: 116-hjres-86
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Timmons, William R. IV [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2020-03-05
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections

Constitution and constitutional amendments

House of Representatives

Members of Congress

Senate
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-03-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting a person from serving more than two consecutive terms as a Senator or six consecutive terms as a Representative.</p> <p>Terms beginning before the ratification of this article do not count towards consecutive term limits.</p>

tv_txt: IA 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. J. RES. 86 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2020 Mr. Timmons (for himself and Mr. Phillips ) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

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: — 1. No person who has been a Senator for two consecutive terms shall again be eligible for election or appointment to the Senate until the date that is one year after the end of such second consecutive term. 2. No person who has been a Representative for six consecutive terms shall again be eligible for election to the House of Representatives until the date that is one year after the end of the sixth consecutive term. 3. For 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 consecutive 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. 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 consecutive terms that a person has been a Senator or Representative. .