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H. J. R. No. 7 As IntroducedAs Introduced
| 130th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2013-2014 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Hottinger, Scherer, Beck, Stebelton, Duffey, Lynch, Buchy, Terhar, Boose, Rosenberger, Hall, Conditt, Blessing, Dovilla, Derickson, Grossman, Smith, Johnson, Amstutz, Butler, Romanchuk, Blair, McGregor, Slaby, Adams, R., Stautberg, McClain, Roegner, Brown
A JOINT RESOLUTION | Applying for an Article V amendments convention.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| The members of the 130th General Assembly of Ohio hereby
apply 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; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, 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 Ohio; also to
transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the
legislative houses in the several states, requesting their
cooperation; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, This application is to be considered as covering
the balanced budget amendment language of the presently
outstanding balanced budget applications from other states,
including 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 for proposing a balanced budget amendment,
but shall not be aggregated with any applications on any other
subject; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, 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. |
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