STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

HOUSE JOINT
RESOLUTION 1016	By:	Banz

AS INTRODUCED

A Joint Resolution calling for a convention to propose amendment(s) pursuant to the provisions of Article V of the United States Constitution; making findings; and directing distribution.

WHEREAS, the citizens of the State of Oklahoma believe that is in the best interest of the people of the United States to amend the United States Constitution in order to adopt a balanced budget amendment; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, each state may request Congress to provide for a convention to propose amendment(s).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 1ST SESSION OF THE 54TH OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE:
SECTION 1.  The Oklahoma Legislature hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that in the absence of a national emergency the total of all Federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all estimated Federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any related and appropriate fiscal restraints.
SECTION 2.  The Secretary of State is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary of the Senate and to the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Congress, and copies to the members of the said Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of the legislative houses in several states, requesting their cooperation.
SECTION 3.  This application is to be considered as covering the same subject matter as the presently-outstanding balanced budget applications from other states, including, but not limited to previously-adopted applications from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas; and this application shall be aggregated with same for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to require the calling of a convention, but shall not be aggregated with any applications on any other subject.
SECTION 4.  This application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have made applications on the same subject.  It supersedes all previous applications by this legislature on the same subject.

54-1-5476	MAH	01/16/13