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====== 2024 Platform Resolution ======
Attachment: 4006/2024_COS_PLATFORM_PRIORITY_RESOLUTION.docx
|**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 85th 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 85th 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.//|
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|Created: |2024-02-06 22:05 GMT|
|Updated: |2025-02-07 00:00 GMT|
|Published: |2024-02-06 08:00 GMT|
|Converted: |2025-11-11 12:28 GMT|
|Change Author: |Erika Hatfield |
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