This is a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
1. The line of succession to the Presidency shall be as follows: the Vice-President, thence to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, thence to the president pro tempore of the Senate, thence to the Majority Leader of the Senate, and thereafter to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Executive Branch, excepting the Attorney General of the United States, who also serves as head of the Department of Justice, in order of the seniority of the Departments as created by Congress, and after them to the senior Senators of each state in order of their states’ admission to the Union, thereafter to the junior Senators in like fashion, and thence to the most senior members of the House of Representatives in order of their state’s admission to the Union; but no one shall succeed to the Presidency who shall be otherwise ineligible to serve as President under the Constitution, nor shall any person who is not eligible to succeed to the Presidency be appointed or confirmed to serve in any position which would place him in the line of succession.
2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions or the legislatures, as determined by public ballot, in the several States, as provided herein.
