Applying for an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes specified limitations on the members of Congress, and requesting Congress to similarly propose such an amendment

This joint resolution provides that pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution, the Iowa General Assembly both petitions the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution on its own and applies the United States Congress to call a convention for the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution, for submission to the states for ratification, to impose certain limits on and remove certain privileges from members of Congress. The proposed amendment to the United States Constitution would subject members of Congress equally to all laws that apply to citizens of the United States, remove benefits that members of Congress receive after leaving office, require that all past, present, and future members of Congress participate in social security, require members of Congress to purchase retirement plans, limit congressional pay increases, eliminate the current congressional health care system, and void all contracts with past and present members of Congress. The joint resolution provides that it shall serve as a continuing application to call a constitutional convention until at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the several states have made application for a similar convention, or the Iowa General Assembly acts to withdraw the application. Finally, the joint resolution requires the Secretary of State to transmit certified copies of the resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the presiding officer in each house of the legislature in each of the states in the union, and the members of Iowa’s congressional delegation requesting their cooperation.