INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana House is not interested in potentially amending the U.S. Constitution to override a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and reinstate limits on political campaign donations.

The Republican-controlled chamber voted 62-31 Thursday to reject the addition of a fourth topic to Senate Joint Resolution 14, which requests Congress call a state-led convention for proposing constitutional amendments restricting federal spending, federal power generally and imposing congressional term limits.

State Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, said the convention, if called, also should be permitted to consider undoing the 2010 Citizens United ruling that affirmed corporations are people and entitled to "speak" on political issues through campaign donations to candidates.

"The combination of these two interpretations of our Constitution (has) resulted in a situation where we have this unlimited dark money flooding into our electoral process," Pierce said.

Article V of the U.S. Constitution requires Congress call a convention for proposing constitutional amendments if 34 states request one. Any amendment recommended by the convention then must be ratified by 38 states to become part of the Constitution.

Pierce said the issues identified in Indiana's convention call "are not at the top of my priority list."

But, he said, "If you're going to meet to do those things, we really ought to get things back into sync so that we have the ability to ensure that our campaign systems are not dominated by those who have the most wealth in our country."

State Rep. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, sponsor of the Senate-approved resolution, successfully urged the House to reject Pierce's proposal.

Koch said inserting additional amendment topics into Indiana's resolution could give Congress an excuse not to call the convention, since 34 states must submit substantially identical requests for one.

Pierce replied that perhaps it's time Indiana leads the nation by telling the other states "they need to get the right list of topics."

The House could approve the unaltered convention resolution as soon as Monday.