3.0.0 35 2023-01-11T13:21:41Z 2023-01-11T13:21:41Z Senate S SJRES 2010-07-21 111 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-07-21T23:18:13Z Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 111 78 HJRES 2010-06-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Related bill CRS Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 111 89 HJRES 2010-07-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Related bill CRS A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to requiring a balanced budget and granting the President of the United States the power of line-item veto. 111 22 SJRES 2009-12-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. 111 27 SJRES 2010-02-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2010-07-21 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2010-07-21 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6086-6087) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2010-07-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N Economics and Public Finance Budget deficits and national debt Budget process Constitution and constitutional amendments Income tax rates Legislative rules and procedure Economics and Public Finance 00 2010-07-21 Introduced in Senate 2010-08-03T21:24:48Z Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to adopt for each fiscal year a budget that sets forth the total receipts and outlays of the United States.

Requires a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber to adopt a budget in which total outlays exceed total receipts.

Prohibits Congress from passing and the President from signing any bill which would cause the total outlays for any year to exceed the total expenditures in the budget for such year.

Bars receipts in any year from being retained for use of the Treasury in an amount which exceeds as a proportion of the national income, that retained for the prior year, unless a bill directed solely at approving a specific increase in such proportion has been passed by a majority of each chamber and has become law.

Authorizes waivers of these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect.

Requires a two-thirds rollcall vote of each chamber to adopt an increase in federal taxes.

States that if in any fiscal year the percentage of growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is negative, discretionary spending, excluding spending for defense and homeland security, in the next fiscal year shall not exceed the level of such spending for the preceding fiscal year reduced by that GDP percentage of negative growth.

]]> A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to a balanced budget. Display Title A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to a balanced budget. Official Title as Introduced A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to a balanced budget. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2010-07-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111sjres35is/xml/BILLS-111sjres35is.xml 2010-07-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.