Beats me. I've been asking the same question at FR for some time.
From Betty Boop’s link in #89, a few dozen states submitted general applications for a convention to propose amendments.
The lawyers at FR and CoS would have us believe they don't “count.”
It’s not the lawyers that are holding things up, it’s the state legislatures.
If 34 of those legislatures pressed forward together, they could press Congress to call a Convention but they’re not doing that because they have 37 states who would rather work with the COS Project rules.
Congress won’t call it because the applications have streamed in so slowly on so many subjects expiring or never renewed that they are not compelled and more importantly the states today do not want a COS without rules and restrictions