Utah Legislature applies for a constitutional convention to enact federal congressional term limits

Utah formally petitions Congress under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to call a convention specifically limited to setting term limits for members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This resolution serves as a continuing application that aggregates with similar state petitions until the two-thirds threshold required to force a convention is reached.

Directs state legislative intent and official administrative notices to federal congressional leaders and other state legislatures, signaling a coordinated interstate effort to bypass Congress if it fails to draft term limits on its own.

• ›Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two methods for proposing amendments: by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. context
• ›In the 1995 case U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot impose qualifications for members of Congress stricter than those specified in the Constitution, invalidating state-level term limits. context