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Senate Approves Extension to Texas’ Call for Convention of States

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Texas Scorecard by  Brandon Waltens   | March 20, 2023

The original resolution, passed in 2017, was set to expire in 2025.

Nearly six years after the Texas Legislature passed a resolution calling for a Convention of States, the Texas Senate has doubled down on the proposition.

Though the mechanism has never been used before, under Article V of the United States Constitution, two-thirds of states can call a Convention of States in order to propose constitutional amendments for states to ratify.

Texas passed a resolution in 2017 calling for an Article V Convention for the purpose of “proposing one or more amendments to the Constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government and to limit the terms of office of federal officials and members of Congress.”

More: https://texasscorecard.com/state/senate-approves-extension-to-texas-call-for-convention-of-states/

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