US Congress House Joint Resolution 24 (Prior Session Legislation)

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February 14 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Pending: House Subcommittee on the Constitution Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the concurrence of two-thirds of the Members of each house of Congress for final adoption of any legislation changing the internal revenue laws, unless such legislation is determined not to increase the internal revenue by more than a de minimis amount. Permits a waiver of this requirement when a declaration of war is in effect or when the United States is engaged in military conflict which causes an imminent and serious threat to national security and is so declared by a joint resolution which becomes law. Prohibits any increase in the internal revenue enacted under such a waiver from lasting more than two years.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Rep Neugebauer, Randy	Rep Burgess, Michael C.	Rep Chaffetz, Jason	Rep Gohmert, Louie
Rep Marchant, Kenny	Rep McMorris Rodgers, Cathy

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
2011-02-08	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HJ00024:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hjres24ih/pdf/BILLS-112hjres24ih.pdf