Calling for an Article V convention in order to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and impose limits on the number of terms that a person may serve in Congress, and requesting Congress to similarly propose such amendments

This joint resolution constitutes an application requesting the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention in order to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and impose limits on the number of terms that a person may serve in the Congress of the United States. The resolution stipulates that Iowa’s delegates to such a convention are expressly limited to consideration and support of amendments on those topics. The resolution constitutes a continuing application to call a constitutional convention and states the intention of the General Assembly that the application be aggregated with the prior and subsequent applications of other states limited to the purposes identified in the resolution. The resolution also petitions the Congress of the United States to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the federal government’s power and jurisdiction, and impose limits on the number of terms that a person may serve in the Congress of the United States.R. The resolution requires the Secretary of State to transmit certified copies of this 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 of each house of the legislature of each state, and to the members of Iowa’s congressional delegation.