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H.J.Res. 188119th CongressIn committeeLatest action May 20, 2026Decoded by AI · checked against the record
Official title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that certain individuals are natural born citizens.
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The amendment would require Congress members, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed officials to be natural born citizens, barring naturalized citizens.
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This bill proposes a constitutional amendment requiring Representatives, Senators, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural born citizens rather than naturalized citizens. Currently only the President and Vice President face this requirement; others need only be citizens, sometimes with a minimum number of years. Naturalized citizens would be permanently barred from these roles.
Naturalized citizens currently serving in Congress, on federal courts, or in Senate-confirmed positions, as well as future naturalized citizens seeking these offices.
Existing officeholders who are naturalized citizens would lose eligibility once their current terms end. As a constitutional amendment, it requires two-thirds approval in both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures within seven years.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House — both chambers have to pass the same text, each by two thirds. A proposed constitutional amendment never goes to the President: it goes to the states, and three quarters of them have to ratify it before it takes effect.
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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