Subject Constitution and constitutional amendments | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | HB1831 | Read the Bills Act - Requires any bill or resolution introduced in either chamber of Congress to contain a provision citing the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the proposed measure, including all of its provisions. Re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-14 |
| US | SJR16 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from making any law that imposes a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services. [Detail][Text] | 2013-06-06 |
| US | SB1037 | Fourth Amendment Preservation and Protection Act of 2013 [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-23 |
| US | SJR15 | Eliminates the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972. Declares th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-09 |
| US | HR196 | Expresses support for: (1) the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, the right to counsel; and (2) strategies to improve the criminal justice system to ensure that indigent defendants in all felony cases are adequately represented by counsel. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote. |
| US | HJR41 | Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HJR42 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits anything in the Constitution, including amendments, from being construed to prohibit voluntary prayer or require prayer in a public school, or to prohibit voluntary prayer or require prayer at a public school extr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HJR38 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall v... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | HJR39 | 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 re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-30 |
| US | SB850 | Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act - Requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to cease all activity that requires a quorum of Board members. Prohibits the Board from appointing any personnel or implementing, ad... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 |
| US | HJR40 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits denial or abridgement of the rights of a crime victim to fairness, respect, and dignity. Grants a crime victim the right: (1) to reasonable notice of, and to not be excluded from, public proceedings relating to th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-25 Committee Hearings Held. |
| US | HB557 | Advice and Consent Restoration Act - Prohibits a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member from receiving a salary unless that member has been appointed: (1) by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or (2) by the President to fill a vacan... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | HB976 | Declares that any agency action taken by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since January 4, 2012, shall be void unless each NLRB member has been appointed: (1) by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or (2) by the President to fill ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-23 |
| US | SB649 | Safe Communities, Safe Schools Act of 2013 - Amends the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (NICS Act), the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act), the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and the federal criminal code t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-18 S.AMDT.730 Amendment SA 730, under the order of 4/16/13, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, was agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 2. Record Vote Number: 105. |
| US | HB1120 | Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act - Requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to cease all activity that requires a quorum of Board members. Prohibits the Board from appointing any personnel nor implementing, a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-15 |
| US | HR153 | Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009: (1) was a "bill for raising revenue" as those words were intended to be understood in article I, section 7, clause 1 of the Constitution;... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-12 |
| US | HJR20 | Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress and the states the power to regulate the raising and spending of money and in-kind equivalents with respect to federal and state elections, respectively. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB1091 | Life at Conception Act - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Prohibits construing thi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR34 | Constitutional Amendment - Declares that, whereas the right to vote in public elections belongs only to natural persons as U.S. citizens, so shall the ability to make contributions and expenditures to influence the outcome of public elections belong ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR33 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any law increasing the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of Representatives has intervened. Repeals the twenty-seventh amendment to the Constitu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HR108 | Recognizes and honors the 50th anniversary of the decision in Gideon v. Wainwright (the Supreme Court held that indigent defendants have a right to be provided counsel in all felony cases). Expresses support for strategies to improve the criminal jus... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR37 | Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HB997 | English Language Unity Act of 2013 - Makes English the official language of the United States. Requires, subject to exceptions and rules of construction, that: (1) official functions of the U.S. government be conducted in English, and (2) all natura... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR35 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits all outlays for a fiscal year (including those for debt service and other debt functions) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | HJR36 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall v... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| US | SB583 | Life at Conception Act of 2013 - Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being beginning at the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Prohibits constr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 30. |
| US | SB560 | Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide that provisions of such Act imposing a penalty for failure to purchase minimum essential health care coverage shall not be construed as imposing any tax or as an exercise of any... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| US | SJR11 | Constitutional Amendment - Declares that, whereas the right to vote in public elections belongs only to natural persons as U.S. citizens, so shall the ability to make contributions and expenditures to influence the outcome of public elections belong ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| US | SB525 | Constitutional Amendment - Declares that, whereas the right to vote in public elections belongs only to natural persons as U.S. citizens, so shall the ability to make contributions and expenditures to influence the outcome of public elections belong ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| US | SB374 | Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013 - Title I: Ensuring That All Individuals Who Should Be Prohibited From Buying A Gun Are Listed In The National Instant Criminal Background Check System - (Sec. 101) Amends the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (NICS A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 25. |
| US | SJR10 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits denying or abridging equality of rights under the law by the United States or by any state on account of sex. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | SB464 | English Language Unity Act of 2013- Makes English the official language of the United States. Requires, subject to exceptions and rules of construction, that: (1) official functions of the U.S. government be conducted in English, and (2) all natural... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| US | HJR19 | Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR22 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a person from serving more than two full consecutive terms as a Senator or six full consecutive terms as a Representative. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR25 | Constitutional Amendment - States that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall prohibit Congress and the states from imposing content-neutral regulations and restrictions on the expenditure of funds for political activity by any corporation, limited l... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB278 | John Tanner Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a cou... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR18 | Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress and the President to agree annually on an estimate of total receipts (except those derived from borrowing) for a fiscal year by enactment into law of a joint resolution devoted solely to that subject. Proh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR26 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a person from serving more than two consecutive terms as a Senator or six consecutive terms as a Representative. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR27 | Constitutional Amendment - Denies Congress the power to lay and collect taxes: (1) to compel any person or persons to engage in commercial activity, or (2) from any person or persons for a failure to engage in any form of commercial activity. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HB410 | Restore the Constitution Act of 2013 - Separation of Powers Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that any executive order, memoranda, proclamation, or signing statement issued by the President that... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR21 | Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) the rights protected by the Constitution are intended to be the rights of natural persons; and (2) the words "people," "person," or "citizen" as used in the Constitution do n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR28 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from making any law that imposes a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR30 | Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to nine terms and Members of the Senate to three terms. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR31 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits construction of the Constitution as forbidding Congress or the states from: (1) imposing reasonable content-neutral limitations on private campaign contributions or independent election expenditures; or (2) enacti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR24 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays (except those for payment of debt) for a year from exceeding the average annual revenue (except that derived from borrowing) collected in the three prior years, adjusted in proportion to changes in p... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | HJR29 | Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) the rights protected by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only; (2) artificial entities (such as corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities established by the laws of a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| US | SJR7 | Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds roll call vo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| US | HB575 | Second Amendment Protection Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not adopt any treaty that poses a threat to national sovereignty or abridges the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, such as the right to bear ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-06 |
| US | HR54 | Recognizes the 100th birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Commemorates the legacy of Rosa Parks to inspire all people of the United States to stand up for freedom and the principles of the Constitution. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| US | HB443 | Protecting America's Solvency Act of 2013 - Increases the public debt limit by $1 trillion, effective upon adoption by the Congress of a balanced budget constitutional amendment in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Increases the public de... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-01 |
