AR HJR1004

Arkansas General Assembly applies to Congress under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to call a convention limited solely to proposing a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on U.S. House and Senate members.

Arkansas currently limits its U.S. Representatives to three 2-year terms and U.S. Senators to two 6-year terms under state constitutional provisions, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton that only a federal constitutional amendment can impose such limits.

Secretary of State directed to transmit the application to congressional leadership, the U.S. Senate President and Secretary, House Speaker and Clerk, House Judiciary Committee Chair, Arkansas's congressional delegation, and all state legislative presiding officers.

Application shall be aggregated with similar term-limits applications from other states toward reaching the two-thirds (34 states) threshold required to trigger a convention, but shall not be combined with applications on any other subject.

Application remains in effect as a continuing application until at least two-thirds of state legislatures submit applications on the same subject.