HR 128 — A Resolution designating April 29, 2025, as "22nd Amendment Day" in Pennsylvania.

PRINTER'S NO.    1035

                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



           HOUSE RESOLUTION
              No. 128
                                              Session of
                                                2025

     INTRODUCED BY WAXMAN, SAMUELSON, BURGOS, NEILSON, GIRAL,
        HOHENSTEIN, RIVERA, MALAGARI, SANCHEZ AND KHAN,
        MARCH 18, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 18, 2025


                               A RESOLUTION
 1   Designating April 29, 2025, as "22nd Amendment Day" in
 2      Pennsylvania.
 3      WHEREAS, The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United
 4   States establishes a term limit for the United States
 5   presidency, stating "No person shall be elected to the office of
 6   the President more than twice, and no person who has held the
 7   office of President, or acted as President, for more than two
 8   years of a term to which some other person was elected President
 9   shall be elected to the office of President more than once"; and
10      WHEREAS, During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the
11   founders of the United States created the standards and
12   qualifications for serving as the President of the United
13   States; and
14      WHEREAS, Upon ratification, the Constitution of the United
15   States established that the President would be elected to terms
16   of four years, though no term limits were established; and
17      WHEREAS, Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century,
 1   at least 200 resolutions were proposed to amend the Constitution
 2   of the United States to establish term limits for the
 3   presidency, though none were passed by the Congress of the
 4   United States; and
 5      WHEREAS, In 1947, the Congress of the United States proposed
 6   Joint Resolution 27 to establish a limit of two elected terms
 7   for each President and passed the measure on March 21 of that
 8   year, sending the measure to the states for ratification; and
 9      WHEREAS, Upon the resolution being sent to the states for
10   ratification, Pennsylvania became the 15th state to ratify the
11   resolution on April 29, 1947; and
12      WHEREAS, On February 27, 1951, Minnesota became the 36th
13   state to ratify the resolution, thereby meeting the necessary
14   threshold for nationwide ratification and establishing the
15   resolution as the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the
16   United States; and
17      WHEREAS, Since its ratification, several members of the
18   Federal Government have proposed repealing the 22nd Amendment,
19   though none of these efforts have been enacted; and
20      WHEREAS, Today, the 22nd Amendment serves as a critical check
21   on executive power in the Federal Government; and
22      WHEREAS, Pennsylvania should celebrate the importance and
23   history of the 22nd Amendment and its role in our democracy
24   while commemorating the day the Commonwealth ratified the
25   amendment; therefore be it
26      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate April
27   29, 2025, as "22nd Amendment Day" in Pennsylvania.




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