The General Assembly of the State of Ohio urges the Congress | 7 |
of the United States to propose a balanced budget amendment to the | 8 |
United States Constitution and hereby applies to the Congress, | 9 |
under the provisions of Article V of the United States | 10 |
Constitution, for the calling of a convention of the states | 11 |
limited to proposing an amendment to the United States | 12 |
Constitution requiring that in the absence of a national emergency | 13 |
the total of all federal appropriations made by the Congress for | 14 |
any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all estimated federal | 15 |
revenues for that fiscal year, together with any related and | 16 |
appropriate fiscal restraints; and | 17 |
It is the intention of the General Assembly that matters | 18 |
shall not be considered at the convention that do not pertain to | 19 |
an amendment requiring that, in the absence of a national | 20 |
emergency, the total of all federal appropriations made by the | 21 |
Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all | 22 |
estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any | 23 |
related and appropriate fiscal restraints; and be it further | 24 |
RESOLVED, The Secretary of State is hereby directed to | 25 |
transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary | 26 |
of the Senate and to the Speaker and Clerk of the House of | 27 |
Representatives of the Congress, and copies to the members of the | 28 |
Senate and House of Representatives from the State of Ohio; also | 29 |
to transmit copies of this application to the presiding officers | 30 |
of each of the legislative houses of the several states, | 31 |
requesting their cooperation; and be it further | 32 |
RESOLVED, This application is to be considered as covering | 33 |
the balanced budget amendment language of the presently | 34 |
outstanding balanced budget applications from other states, | 35 |
including previously adopted applications from Alabama, Alaska, | 36 |
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, | 37 |
Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, | 38 |
New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. This | 39 |
application shall be aggregated with those other applications for | 40 |
the purpose of attaining the two-thirds of states necessary to | 41 |
require the calling of a convention for proposing a balanced | 42 |
budget amendment, but shall not be aggregated with any | 43 |
applications on any other subject; and be it further | 44 |
RESOLVED, If the convention called by the Congress is not | 45 |
limited to considering a balanced budget amendment, then any | 46 |
delegates, representatives, or participants from the State of Ohio | 47 |
asked to participate in the convention are authorized to debate | 48 |
and vote only on a proposed amendment or amendments to the United | 49 |
States Constitution requiring that in the absence of a national | 50 |
emergency the total of all federal appropriations made by the | 51 |
Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all | 52 |
estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any | 53 |
related and appropriate fiscal restraints; and be it further | 54 |
RESOLVED, This application constitutes a continuing | 55 |
application in accordance with Article V of the United States | 56 |
Constitution until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the | 57 |
several states have made applications on the same subject or the | 58 |
Congress has proposed an amendment to the United States | 59 |
Constitution equivalent to the amendment proposed in this | 60 |
resolution. This application supersedes all previous applications | 61 |
by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio on the same subject. | 62 |