Title: 2024 Platform Resolution

Original CoS Document (slug): tx-2024-platform-resolution

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Created: 2024-02-06 17:05:37

Updated: 2025-02-06 19:00:00

Published: 2024-02-06 03:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T20:15:42.922250745

PLATFORM / LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY RESOLUTION

COUNTY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

MARCH 23, 2024

As Proposed in Precinct .

Whereas SJR 2 was passed by the State Legislature in the 85^th Session in 2017 calling a convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose one or more amendments limited to three categories:

• impose fiscal restraints on the federal government
• limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and to
• limit the terms of office of federal officials and members of Congress

Whereas SJR 38 was also passed by the State Legislature in the 85^th Session in 2017 requiring all Article V resolutions passed in or after 2017 to have an 8-year expiration (May 2025) making it necessary to either indefinitely extend the current resolution, or pass it anew, and

Be it resolved that the Republican Party of Texas shall reiterate its support of an Article V Convention of States by including it as a legislative priority and altering Plank 37 to read as follows:

Article 5 Convention of States: The Texas Legislature shall indefinitely extend the call for a Convention of States to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.