Balanced budget amendment resolution.

WORKING DRAFT
2015
STATE OF
WYOMING
15LSO-0348
Numbered
2.1

House

JOINT RESOLUTION
NO.

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Balanced budget amendment resolution.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Lindholm and Laursen and Senator(s) Driskill, Hicks and Wasserburger

A JOINT RESOLUTION

for

A JOINT RESOLUTION petitioning Congress to call a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget.

WHEREAS,
the legislature of the State of Wyoming is petitioning the Congress of the United States
to call a convention to propose amendments

to the C
onstitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget
.

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

Section 1.

That p
ursuant to A
rticle V of the

C
onstitution of the United States, the legislature of the state of
Wyoming
petitions the congress of the United
States of

America, at its session, to call a convention of the states limited to proposing an amendment t
o the C
onstitution of the

United States requiring that in the absence of a national emergency, including, but not limited to, an attack by a foreign

nation or terrorist organization within the United States of America, 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.

Section 2.

That this application is to be considered as covering the balanced budget amend
ment language of
the presently outstanding balanced budget applications from other states, including, but not limited to, previously

adopted applications from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware,
Florida,
Georgia,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Maryland,
Michigan,
Mississippi, Missouri,

Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexic
o, North Carolina,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania
, Tennessee
and Texas. T
his application shall

be aggregated with those applications for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds

(2/3)
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.

Section 3.

T
hat t
his application constitutes a continuing
application in accordance with A
rticle V of the

C
onstitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds
(2/3)
of the several states have made applications

on the same subject. This application
supersedes all previous applications by this legislature on the same subject.

Section 4
.

That the Secretary of State of Wyoming transmit copies 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,
to the Wyoming Congressional
Delegation and to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation.

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