HR 18  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2692

08/11

 

HOUSE RESOLUTION 18

 

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment:  "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Amanda Bouldin, Hills. 12; Rep. Andrew Bouldin, Hills. 12; Rep. Hyland, Hills. 38; Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Klein-Knight, Hills. 11; Rep. P. Schmidt, Straf. 19; Rep. Almy, Graf. 13; Rep. J. Schmidt, Hills. 28; Rep. Read, Rock. 17; Rep. Knirk, Carr. 3; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

 

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This resolution urges Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment:  "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

 

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22-2692

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment:  "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

 

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives:  that the house of representatives hereby urges Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment reading "except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"; and

That the house clerk forward official copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, and to all the members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.