SJR 6

As Introduced
136th General Assembly
    Regular Session  S. J. R. No. 6
       2025-2026
  Senators Gavarone, Timken
  A JOINT RESOLUTION
  Applying to the Congress of the United States for a  1
  limited national convention for the exclusive purpose     2
  of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the      3
  United States to establish term limits for members of     4
  Congress.  5
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
     WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United  6
States requires the Congress of the United States to call a  7
convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the  8
United States upon the application of two-thirds of the  9
legislatures of the several States; now therefore be it  10
     RESOLVED, That the Ohio General Assembly hereby makes an  11
application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the  12
Constitution of the United States, to call a convention limited  13
to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United  14
States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may  15
be elected as a Member of the United States House of  16
Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms that a        17
person may be elected as a Member of the United States Senate;  18
and be it further  19
     RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives  20
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is hereby directed to transmit duly authenticated copies of this  21
resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States  22
Senate, the Speaker, Clerk, and Chairperson of the Judiciary  23
Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the  24
members of the United States Senate and United States House of  25
Representatives from this State, and the presiding officers of  26
all of the legislative houses in the several States, requesting  27
their cooperation; and be it further  28
        RESOLVED, That this application shall be considered as  29
covering the same subject matter as the applications from other  30
States to Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the  31
number of terms that a person may be elected to the United  32
States House of Representatives and the United States Senate,  33
and this application shall be aggregated with the same for the  34
purpose of attaining the two-thirds of States necessary to  35
require Congress to call a limited convention on this subject,  36
but shall not be aggregated with any other applications on any  37
other subject; and be it further  38
        RESOLVED, That this application constitutes a continuing  39
application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of  40
the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds  41
of the several States have made applications on the same  42
subject.  43