Bill Text: TX HCR17 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Concurrent Resolution 17 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Urging Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-18 - Referred to State Sovereignty, Select [HCR17 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HCR17-Introduced.html



	By: Creighton	H.C.R. No. 17



	HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, Article I of the United States Constitution begins
	"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in
	Congress," and
	WHEREAS, the Congress has exceeded the legislative powers
	granted in the Constitution thereby encroaching on the powers that
	are "reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" as the
	Tenth Amendment affirms and the rights "retained by the people" to
	which the Ninth Amendment refers; and
	WHEREAS, this encroachment includes the accumulation of
	federal debt, which combined with interest represents a future tax,
	and is of such great proportion that responsibility for its payment
	will be passed to future, unborn generations of Americans to assume
	without their consent, thereby disparaging their rights; and
	WHEREAS, this encroachment also includes compelling state
	and local governments to comply with federal laws and regulations
	without accompanying funding for such mandates; and
	WHEREAS, in Federalist No. 85, Alexander Hamilton wrote in
	reference to Article V of the Constitution and the calling of a
	convention for the purpose of proposing amendments that, We may
	safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect
	barriers against the encroachments of the national authority"; and
	WHEREAS, the Constitution should be amended in order to halt
	federal encroachment and restore a proper balance between the
	powers of Congress and those of the several states, and to prevent
	the denial or disparagement of the rights retained by the people;
	now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED that the Congress of the United States be urged to
	call a constitutional convention pursuant to Article V of the
	United States Constitution for the purpose of proposing a
	constitutional amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law
	or regulation by vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures, and
	the Texas Delegation to such Convention, when called, shall propose
	the following amendment: "Any provision of law or regulation of the
	Unites States may be repealed by the several states, and such repeal
	shall be effective when the legislature of two-thirds of the
	several state approve resolutions for this purpose that
	particularly describe the same provision or provisions of law or
	regulation to be repealed; and be it
	RESOLVED, that delegates to such Convention, when called, be
	selected according to procedures established by the legislatures of
	the several states; and be it
	RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
	copies of this resolution to the senators and representatives of
	Texas in Congress with the request that this resolution be
	officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the
	Congress of the United States of America; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward a copy of
	this resolution to the President of the United States of America,
	the Vice President of the United States of America, and the Speaker
	of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, so
	that they may be apprised of the sense of the Texas House of
	Representatives in this matter.