Arizona HCR 2043: education TPT; school finance

Bill Text

Odd Ball HCR2043 - 572R - H Ver of HCR2043 

 House Engrossed

 congressional term 
 limits; convention

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2043

A 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

applying to the Congress of the United 
States to call a convention for proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States to limit the number of terms of office of members of the 
United States House of representatives and the United States Senate.

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Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States 
provides the states with the authority to call a convention for the purpose of proposing 
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to be ratified by the 
legislatures or by conventions in three-fourths of the several states on 
application by at least two-thirds of the states; and

Whereas, this power provides the States with the leverage 
needed to force Congress to act when it otherwise does not want to; and

Whereas, the citizens of the State of Arizona and twenty-two 
other states, having passed statutes or state constitutional amendments placing 
term limits on members of Congress, were overruled by the United States Supreme 
Court; and

Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Arizona hereby joins 
with other states in instructing Congress to draft a term limits amendment and 
send it to the States for ratification, failing which the States will act on 
their own; and

Whereas, the Arizona Legislature, a body of citizen 
legislators, desires to restore rotation in office for members serving in the 
Congress of the United States.

Therefore

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Arizona, the Senate concurring:

1. That, pursuant to 
Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the Legislature of the 
State of Arizona formally applies to the Congress of the United States to call 
a convention of the states limited to proposing an amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms that a 
person may be elected as a Member of the United States House of Representatives 
and to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a 
Member of the United States Senate.

2. That this application 
constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the 
Constitution of the United States until at least two-thirds of the legislatures 
of the several states have made application on the same subjects.

3. That this application 
shall be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications 
from other states to Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number 
of terms that a person may be elected to the United States House of 
Representatives and the United States Senate, and this application shall be 
aggregated with same for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states 
necessary to require Congress to call a limited convention on this subject, but 
shall not be aggregated with any other applications on any other subject.

4. That the Secretary of 
State of the State of Arizona transmit a copy of this Resolution to the 
President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker, Clerk and 
Judiciary Committee Chairman of the United States House of Representatives, 
each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona and the presiding officers of 
each house of the several state legislatures, requesting their cooperation.

PASSED BY THE HOUSE FEBRUARY 4, 2026.

PASSED BY THE SENATE APRIL 21, 2026.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
OF STATE APRIL 22, 2026.