FLASH : Current News about COS

Last November the Collier Country Republican Executive Committee (CCREC) passed a resolution to rescind all applications for an Article V Convention. Joanna Martin J.D. drafted the final version of the resolution. Attorney Martin has since developed an email blast program to surveil what state legislatures are doing regarding applications for an Article V convention.

She reports that it appears Florida will pass any application for an Article V Convention. The Balanced Budget Amendment & Term Limits Applications passed on Feb. 1. The same applications had previously passed in 2014 and 2016 respectively. According to the Article V Library, Florida has a whooping 13 applications on record. And they're currently promoting 4 more applications, 2 of which already passed one House. Florida Legislators have apparently been convinced that the answer to any problem is to pass applications for an Article V Convention, over & over & over again.

In Utah the Phoenix Correspondence Commission (PCC) requested Utah taxpayers pay $50,000 for 2024 and ongoing into future years. They ended up with $5,000 for 2024 and none ongoing. Sneaking taxpayer's money into a line item in a state budget for funding the push for a convention is outrageous. We're used to fighting legislation for an Article V Convention; not line items in budget bills; but a reporter happened to be at the presentation and wrote about it. Utah taxpayers could pay as much as $50,000 a year to an organization aimed at creating the framework for a constitutional convention to debate new amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The PCC first met in Arizona in 2017 to hold a simulated convention with delegates from 19 states.

We are close to Congress calling an Article V Convention. It appears that Congress already has applications for a Convention from more than 34 States. If Congress decides to aggregate the applications for the various Amendments and count them all together - as COS is urging them to do - Congress can call a Convention now.

House Concurrent Resolution H.CON.RES.24 which dictates that Congress combine decades- and centuries-old applications on any and all subjects with "limited" single-subject applications. Therefore, regardless of the wording, if H.CON.RES.24 or any similar bill passes, will be counted as one of 34 states to have triggered an unlimited convention!

Legislation to call a Convention, H.CON.RES 24 (2023-2024), has already been filed in Congress! HCR 24 counts all applications for a Convention together, regardless of the Amendment requested & counts Applications which have been rescinded; and concludes that since there are now 34 Applications for a Convention, Congress should call the Convention now. This shows that the Convention Lobby is aggressively pushing for Congress to call the Convention. And understand this: If HCR 24 passes Congress, Congress thereby calls the Convention!

Thank you