# Plain Language Summary: Presidential Term Limits Amendment

This bill proposes to change the Constitution to limit how many times someone can be elected president. Right now, the Constitution allows a president to serve two full terms (eight years total). This proposal would allow presidents to serve up to three terms instead—potentially up to twelve years in office.

The rule gets a bit more complicated when a vice president takes over mid-term. If a vice president becomes president and serves more than two years of someone else's term, they could only be elected president twice after that. But if they serve two years or less as an acting president, they could still be elected three times total. Essentially, the bill tries to prevent someone from serving as president indefinitely while still allowing some flexibility when there's a succession.

For this change to actually happen, it would need to pass both the House and Senate with a two-thirds majority vote in each chamber, then be approved by three-fourths of all state legislatures within seven years. That's a very high bar—constitutional amendments are intentionally difficult to pass. If it did become law, it would only apply to future elections, not retroactively to current or past presidents.

The practical effect would be that presidents could potentially serve longer than they can today, giving them more time to pursue long-term policies and goals. Critics worry this could concentrate too much power in one person's hands, while supporters might argue it allows experienced leaders to accomplish more. Either way, this is a fundamental change to how American government works, which is why it requires such broad agreement across the country to pass.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times.

Ogles, Andrew

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the number of times a person may be elected President.The proposed amendment specifies that no person shall be elected to the office of the President (1) more than three times, (2) for any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, or (3) more than twice after having served as President for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President (for example, if a President died after serving for one year and the Vice&nbsp;President became President for the remaining three years of the term, that person may subsequently be elected President no more than two times).Currently, under the Twenty-Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a person may not be elected President more than twice. Additionally, no person who has been President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President may be elected President more than once.