82R11816 KYF-D

By: Elkins H.J.R. No. 123

A JOINT RESOLUTION

rescinding the 1899 application of the 26th Texas Legislature to the United States Congress to call an unrestricted convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.

WHEREAS, The 26th Texas Legislature applied to the United States Congress 112 years ago to call a convention, pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, to propose amendments to that constitution; and

WHEREAS, That particular application did not provide any limitation on the subject matter of amendments to be considered or proposed by such a convention; and

WHEREAS, At the present time, the Texas Legislature has absolutely no desire or intention whatsoever for Congress to call an Article V convention of a general and unlimited nature; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the 82nd Texas Legislature hereby rescinds the application to Congress made by Senate Concurrent Resolution 4, Acts of the 26th Legislature, Regular Session, 1899, pursuant to Article V, for the calling of an open-ended convention to propose federal constitutional amendments, as reprinted in the Congressional Record of December 11, 1899, at page 219; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official copies of this resolution to the vice president of the United States (in his capacity as presiding officer of the United States Senate), to the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to all members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a rescission of the application to Congress of the 26th Texas Legislature requesting an indeterminate constitutional convention.