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Am. S. J. R. No. 5 As Enrolled (130th General Assembly) (Amended Senate Joint Resolution Number 5)
JOINT RESOLUTION Urging the Congress of the United States to propose a
balanced budget amendment to the United States
Constitution and applying to the Congress,
pursuant to Article V of the United States
Constitution, to call a convention for proposing a
balanced budget amendment.
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: The General Assembly of the State of Ohio urges the Congress
of the United States to propose a balanced budget amendment to the
United States Constitution and hereby applies to the Congress,
under the provisions of Article V of the United States
Constitution, for the calling of a convention of the states
limited to proposing an amendment to the United States
Constitution 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
It is the intention of the General Assembly that matters
shall not be considered at the convention that do not pertain to
an amendment 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
Senate and House of Representatives from the State of Ohio; also
to transmit copies of this application to the presiding officers
of each of the legislative houses of 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. This
application shall be aggregated with those other applications 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, If the convention called by the Congress is not
limited to considering a balanced budget amendment, then any
delegates, representatives, or participants from the State of Ohio
asked to participate in the convention are authorized to debate
and vote only on a proposed amendment or amendments to the United
States Constitution 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, This application constitutes a continuing
application in accordance with Article V of the United States
Constitution until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the
several states have made applications on the same subject or the
Congress has proposed an amendment to the United States
Constitution equivalent to the amendment proposed in this
resolution. This application supersedes all previous applications
by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio on the same subject.
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