It is a given that each State must individually petition the Federal Congress to call for a COS, and each States’ petition is a product of its respective legislature.
The Convention of States organization has a template for petitions, and it would be ideal if each State had identical petitions. This is because the Fed Congress is charged with determining whether the 2/3 trigger has been met FOR PETITIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT MATTER.
For example, if 34 States submit petitions that state that the purpose of calling a COS is to impose term limits, then the Feds have no choice but to call the Convention.
However, if 30 States petition for term limits, and 4 petition to “limit the size of the Federal Government”, then the Feds would likely determine that the threshold is not met.
There are limitless permutations of how the Feds could group or segregate individual State petitions if the language differs, even slightly, one from another.This is the rub, and has prevented the threshold from being reached when this was done in our past history. This issue is sure to be litigated this time if the Feds are seen to be unreasonably impeding the process on this basis.
So, while it would be ideal if every State were to submit identical petitions, I find no fault specifically with what Florida has in its bill other than to say it does not go far enough. But then, I have the same complaint with the petitions currently in progress or passed out of other States.
My understanding of the proposed Convention of States as the second Article V option completely bypasses the feds and Congress. The second option in Article V does not require fed approval.