Provide for article V commissioner selection and oversight
This bill establishes a formal process for selecting, overseeing, and removing Montana commissioners who would attend a constitutional convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. It sets specific eligibility requirements for commissioners, including citizenship, residency, age, and restrictions on lobbying, federal employment, and criminal convictions. The legislation creates an advisory committee to assist with oversight and allows the legislature to recall or suspend commissioners for exceeding their authority or violating their commission instructions. Commissioners must take an oath to follow their commission's limits, which restricts them from voting to change the one-state-one-vote rule or alter specific constitutional protections for individual liberties.
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Nov 2024
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Introduced Nov 22, 2024
Last action Jan 8, 2025
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