Bill Text: TX SJR10 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Left pending in committee [SJR10 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SJR10-Introduced.html
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| By: Shapiro | S.J.R. No. 10 | |
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| applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention | ||
| to propose an amendment to the United States Constitution to | ||
| require a balanced federal budget. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| WHEREAS, The United States Constitution contains no | ||
| restriction on the power of the federal government to incur a budget | ||
| deficit; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution provides | ||
| that on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the | ||
| several states Congress shall call a convention for proposing | ||
| amendments to the constitution; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 82nd Texas Legislature apply to Congress | ||
| to call a convention under Article V of the United States | ||
| Constitution for the exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to | ||
| the constitution providing that except in time of war or other | ||
| national emergency the total of all federal appropriations for a | ||
| fiscal year may not exceed the total of all estimated federal | ||
| revenue for that fiscal year; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That, unless rescinded by a succeeding | ||
| legislature, this application by the 82nd Texas Legislature | ||
| constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V | ||
| of the United States Constitution until at least two-thirds of the | ||
| legislatures of the several states have applied to Congress to call | ||
| a convention to propose an amendment to the constitution to provide | ||
| for a balanced federal budget, but if Congress proposes a | ||
| constitutional amendment identical in subject matter to that | ||
| contained in this resolution, this application is no longer of any | ||
| force; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That this application is rescinded in the event | ||
| that a convention to propose amendments to the United States | ||
| Constitution includes purposes other than providing for a balanced | ||
| federal budget; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the | ||
| Senate of the Congress of the United States, and to all members of | ||
| the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this | ||
| resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as an | ||
| application to Congress for a convention to propose an amendment to | ||
| the United States Constitution to provide for a balanced federal | ||
| budget; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the secretaries of state and to the | ||
| presiding officers of the legislatures of the several states with | ||
| the request that they join this state in applying to Congress for a | ||
| convention to propose an amendment to the United States | ||
| Constitution to provide for a balanced federal budget. | ||
