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Sponsors detail bill to define, constrain and penalize state delegates to any Article V convention
Summary
House Bill 67 would create state statutes governing selection, duties, recall, oath and criminal penalties for Ohio delegates to an Article V convention; sponsors said the bill is intended to prevent a "runaway" convention and to give the Ohio legislature legal mechanisms to hold delegates to instructions.
State Representative McLean and a co-sponsor told the House Government Oversight Committee that House Bill 67 would establish state law to select and oversee any Ohio delegates sent to a convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
Under the bill described to the committee, the legislature would set a procedures commission to nominate delegates, require delegates to take an oath, allow compensation, create recall procedures, and make certain actions by a delegate a felony. "This spells out the delegate roles at a convention, creates an advisory committee here at the state level," McLean said, adding that the…
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