HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 10

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2017

INTRODUCED BY

Brian Egolf

A JOINT RESOLUTION

RESCINDING HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER 12 PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1951, SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER 2 PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1965 AND SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 1 PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE IN 1976, EACH OF WHICH MADE AN APPLICATION TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR THE CALLING OF A CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.

     WHEREAS, Article 5 of the United States constitution reads in part as follows: "the Congress . . . on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States"; and

     WHEREAS, in 1951, the legislature of New Mexico passed House Joint Resolution Number 12 to make an application to the United States congress to call a convention to propose specified amendments to the United States constitution; and

     WHEREAS, in 1965, the legislature of New Mexico passed Senate Joint Resolution Number 2 to make an application to the United States congress to call a convention to propose a specified amendment to the United States constitution; and

     WHEREAS, in 1976, the legislature of New Mexico passed Senate Joint Resolution 1 to make an application to the United States congress to call a convention to propose a specified amendment to the United States constitution;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that House Joint Resolution Number 12, passed in the first session of the twentieth legislature of the state of New Mexico, Senate Joint Resolution Number 2, passed in the first session of the twenty-seventh legislature of the state of New Mexico, and Senate Joint Resolution 1, passed in the second session of the thirty-second legislature of the state of New Mexico, be rescinded; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transmitted, within thirty days of its passage, to the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the clerk of the United States house of representatives, the president of the United States senate, the secretary of the United States senate and the members of the New Mexico congressional delegation; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a request be hereby made that the official journals and record of the senate and the house of representatives of the United States congress include the resolution or a notice of its receipt.

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