[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 254 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 254

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide that no State shall be obligated by new Federal law to perform 
any new or expanded program or service, unless the expenses of doing so 
                  are paid by the Federal Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

 Mr. Franks of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Blute, Mrs. 
Lloyd, Mr. Stump, Mr. Solomon, and Mr. Ewing) introduced the following 
 joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
provide that no State shall be obligated by new Federal law to perform 
any new or expanded program or service, unless the expenses of doing so 
                  are paid by the Federal Government.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. Except as provided in this article of amendment, no 
State or local governmental authority created by a State shall be 
obligated by Federal law or regulation (other than this Constitution) 
to perform any new or expanded program or service, as may be defined by 
Act of Congress, if that law or regulation takes effect after the 
adoption of this article of amendment, unless sufficient Federal funds 
are provided to the affected State or local governmental authority as 
may be necessary to pay the net additional costs directly required for 
the actual performance of that program or service or the expanded 
portion of that program or service.''.
    ``Section 2. Congress may, by Act of Congress agreed to by two-
thirds of the members voting and present in each House, suspend for not 
more than 180 days the operation of section 1 of this article during a 
period the Congress determines in such Act to be an emergency, but any 
law or regulation the effect of which would be limited by section 1 in 
the absence of such a Act must, before it takes effect, be expressly 
approved by a separate Act agreed to by two-thirds of the members 
voting and present in each House.''.

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