Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced.

3.0.0 14 2025-12-05T07:54:57Z 2025-12-05T07:54:57Z Senate S SJRES 2023-02-16 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/14 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-02-16T16:40:35Z Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. 118 67 HJRES 2023-06-09 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Identical bill CRS Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. 118 75 HJRES 2023-06-15 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2023-02-16 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2023-02-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT N G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Chuck Grassley R IA 2023-02-16 True Economics and Public Finance Budget deficits and national debt 2023-03-06T21:00:20Z Constitution and constitutional amendments 2023-03-06T21:00:21Z Income tax rates 2023-03-06T21:00:21Z Judicial review and appeals 2023-03-06T21:00:21Z Legislative rules and procedure 2023-03-06T21:00:20Z Members of Congress 2023-03-06T21:00:20Z Economics and Public Finance 2023-03-01T14:01:45Z

00 2023-02-16 Introduced in Senate 2023-02-27T15:40:21Z This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year or 18% of the U.S. gross domestic product unless Congress authorizes the excess by a two-thirds vote of each chamber. The prohibition excludes outlays for repayment of debt principal and receipts derived from borrowing. The amendment requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber of Congress to levy a new tax, increase the rate of any tax, or increase the debt limit. The amendment provides any Member of Congress with standing and a cause of action to seek judicial enforcement of this amendment if authorized by a petition signed by one-third of the Members of either chamber of Congress. Courts are prohibited from ordering any increase in revenue to enforce this amendment.

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. Display Title 45 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. 2023-02-18T12:45:23Z Official Title as Introduced 6 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring that the Federal budget be balanced. 2023-02-18T02:43:49Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118sjres14is/xml/BILLS-118sjres14is.xml 2023-02-16 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.