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HJ0002 • 2011

Resolution-U.S. constitution requiring a balanced budget.

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress submit to the states a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a balanced budget except in times of war or declared national emergency.

Budget
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Kroeker
Last action
2011-02-10
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Amendments

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HJ0002HS001

Standing Committee • H03

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by H03

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Bill History

  1. 2011-02-10 Senate

    S Failed CoW; Indef Postponed

  2. 2011-02-04 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  3. 2011-02-04 Senate

    S03 Recommended Do Pass

  4. 2011-01-27 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S03

  5. 2011-01-25 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  6. 2011-01-21 House

    H Passed 3rd Reading

  7. 2011-01-20 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  8. 2011-01-19 House

    H Passed CoW

  9. 2011-01-19 House

    H Amendments Adopted

  10. 2011-01-19 House

    Amendment Adopted

  11. 2011-01-17 House

    H Placed on General File

  12. 2011-01-17 House

    H03 Recommended Amend and Do Pass

  13. 2011-01-12 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H03

  14. 2011-01-11 House

    H Received for Introduction

  15. 2011-01-06 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0409.E1

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.
HJ0002

Resolution-U.S. constitution requiring a balanced budget.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Kroeker and Senator(s) Nutting

A Bill

for

A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting
Congress
submit to the states a
propos
ed
amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a balanced budget except in times of war or declared national emergency
.

WHEREAS,
the necessity, importance and benefit of a balanced budget is evident; and

WHEREAS, Congress is expected to use its full range of legislative powers to reach and maintain a balanced budget; and

WHEREAS, continued deficit spending demonstrates an unwillingness or inability of the federal executive and legislative branches to spend no more than the available revenues; and

WHEREAS, fiscal irresponsibility at the federal level is lowering the standard of living, destroying jobs, inflating the currency and endangering economic opportunities now and for the next generation; and

WHEREAS, the requirement for maintaining a balanced budget should be subject to waiver in times of declared war or when two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and the President declare a national emergency.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
:

Section 1.

That procedures be instituted in Congress to add a new Article to the Constitution of the United States, and that Congress prepare and submit to the several states an amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring that in the absence of a declared national emergency or war, the total of all expenditures for any fiscal year shall not exceed the total of estimated revenues, excluding any revenues derived from borrowing, for that fiscal year.

Section 2
.

That the
S
ecretary of State of Wyoming transmit cop
i
es of this resolution to the President of the United States, to the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress
, legislative leadership of the other forty-nine (49) states
and to the Wyoming Congressional Delegation, with a request that the Wyoming Congressional delegation take all reasonable and necessary actions to initiate the amendment process to amend the Constitution of the United States consistent with this resolution and that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.

(END)

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