Application for a
Convention to Propose Amendments
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A Concurrent
Resolution or Joint Resolution of the
senate and house of representatives of the
State
[Commonwealth] of ___ making
application to the Congress of the United States under Article V
of the United States Constitution, for the calling of a convention
for proposing amendments limited to specified subject areas.
Be it resolved by the legislature of the
State [Commonwealth] of _____.
SECTION 1.
The legislature of the State [Commonwealth] of ____
hereby makes application to the Congress, under the provisions of
Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the call
of a convention for proposing amendments.
SECTION 2. This application is for a
convention limited to considering and proposing amendments on the
following subjects:
1. Improving the fiscal management of
the federal government by doing all or any combination of the
following:
(A) Imposing requirements, with any
stated exceptions, that federal expenditures during a fixed
time period not exceed federal revenues or anticipated
revenues during that time period;
(B) Imposing either or both of the
following:
(i) prohibitions on federal debt.
(ii) limits on federal debt.
(C) Imposing limits on expenditures,
revenue, and/or taxes or any combination of these.
2. Improving the legislative process by
requiring any or both of the following:
(A) That all bills, orders, votes,
and resolutions introduced in and passed by Congress contain
only a single subject.
(B) A minimum time period before
passage for bills, orders, votes and resolutions to be
reviewed by members of Congress and members of the general
public.
3. Restraining the powers of the
federal government by doing any or both of the following:
(A) Clarifying that the Constitution
does not authorize Congress to employ its spending power to
regulate activities otherwise outside its enumerated powers.
(B) Prohibiting mandates or
requirements on any state, subdivision of any state, or any
official thereof, unless the federal government fully funds
the cost of compliance.
4. Empowering the legislatures of the
several states, with stated exceptions, to repeal all or certain
parts of the following:
(A) Acts of Congress.
(B) Administrative regulations.
SECTION 3. This application shall be
deemed an application for a convention to address each and any of
the subjects in Section 2. For purposes of the determining whether
two thirds of the states have applied for a convention addressing
any subject, this application is to be aggregated with the
applications of any other state legislatures limited to one or
more of the subjects in Section 2.
SECTION 4. This is a continuing
application and remains in effect until rescission by any sitting
session of the legislature of this
state. This application does not
constitute a recognition that any particular activity or
activities currently undertaken by the federal government is or
are authorized by the Constitution.
SECTION 5.
The secretary of state is hereby directed
to transmit copies of this application to the President and
Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of
the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, the
Archivist of the United States, and copies to the members of the
said Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to
transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the
legislative chambers in the several States, requesting their
cooperation.
