Please contact us and let us know what your Senator's stand is on calling an Article V convention or if you are a Senator, let us know your opinion.
A NOTE ABOUT ASL: Of Utah’s 104 legislators, there were five legislators who attended the June 12-13, 2014 the bipartisan gathering of the Assembly of State Legislators (ASL): Wayne Neiderhauser, Gene Davis, Ken Ivory, Lowry Snow, and Marc Roberts. Additional Utah legislators attended the ASL in Salt Lake in 2015. These meetings are held to make up rules for the Article Constitutional Convention for proposing amendments. Did Utah’s State legislature vote to have these individuals represent the Utah legislature or were they just representing themselves?
Please don't let a handful of self appointed Legislators who attend the Assembly of State Legislatures (consisting one to two hundred legislators out of 7,383 legislators in the 50 States) pretend that they actually represent the 50 legislatures in this matter. Did Article V of the Constitution provide for an Assembly of State Legislators? No, no such authority is found in Article V.
On 23 Feb 2017, the Utah Senate voted 16 to 12 AGAINST HJR 3, effectively killing this call for an Article V Convention. How did your senator vote?
Yeas - 12
Adams, J. S.Fillmore, L.Hinkins, D.Ipson, D.Knudson, P.Niederhauser, W.Okerlund, R.Shiozawa, B.Stevenson, J.Thatcher, D.Van Tassell, K.Vickers, E.
Nays - 16
Anderegg, J.Bramble, C.Buxton, D. G.Christensen, A.Dabakis, J.
Davis, G.Dayton, M.Escamilla, L.Harper, W.Hemmert, D.
Henderson, D.Iwamoto, J.Mayne, K.Millner, A.Stephenson, H.
Weiler, T.
Absent or not voting - 1
Hillyard, L.
SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR AND AGAINST A CON-CON IN 2015
1HJR 7
Joint Resolution Calling for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.s. Constitution
Sponsors: Powell and Bramble
Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules
Yeas 15 Nays 13 Abs 1
Yeas - 15
Adams, J. S.Bramble, C.Henderson, D.Knudson, P.Madsen, M.
Millner, A.Niederhauser, W.Okerlund, R.Osmond, A.Stevenson, J.
Thatcher, D.Urquhart, S.Van Tassell, K.Vickers, E.Weiler, T.
Nays - 13
Christensen, A.Dabakis, J.Davis, G.Dayton, M.Escamilla, L.
Harper, W.Hinkins, D.Iwamoto, J.Jackson, A.Jenkins, S.
Mayne, K.Shiozawa, B.Stephenson, H.
Absent or not voting - 1
Hillyard, L.
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