[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 170 (Tuesday, November 29, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S6550]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-255. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of South Dakota making formal application to the 
     United States Congress to call an Article V convention of the 
     states for the sole purpose of proposing a federal balanced 
     budget amendment to the United States Constitution; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.

                    House Joint Resolution No. 1001

       Whereas, the Legislature of the State of South Dakota 
     hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V 
     of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of 
     a convention of the states limited to proposing an amendment 
     to the Constitution of the United States requiring that in 
     the absence of a national emergency, the total of all federal 
     appropriations made by 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; and
       Whereas, this application constitutes a continuing 
     application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution 
     of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-
     thirds of the several states have made applications on the 
     same subject. It supersedes all previous applications by this 
     Legislature on the same subject: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the Ninetieth 
     Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate 
     concurring therein, That the State of South Dakota does 
     hereby apply to the Congress of the United States to call an 
     amendment convention pursuant to Article V of the United 
     States Constitution limited to proposing an amendment to the 
     United States Constitution requiring that in the absence of a 
     national emergency, the total of all federal appropriations 
     made by 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; 
     and be it further
       Resolved, This application is to be considered as covering 
     the same subject matter as the presently outstanding balanced 
     budget applications from other states, including previously-
     adopted applications from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, 
     Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, 
     Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, 
     Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, 
     Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas. This application 
     shall be aggregated with same for the purpose of attaining 
     the two-thirds of states necessary to require the calling of 
     a convention for proposing a balanced budget amendment but 
     may not be aggregated with any applications on any other 
     subject; and be it further
       Resolved, That the other states be encouraged to make 
     similar applications for an amendment convention pursuant to 
     Article V of the Constitution of the United States; and be it 
     further
       Resolved, That this application constitutes a continuing 
     application for such amendment convention pursuant to Article 
     V of the Constitution of the United States until the 
     legislatures of two-thirds of the states have made such 
     applications and such convention has been called by the 
     Congress of the United States; and be it further
       Resolved, That the secretary of state transmit copies of 
     this resolution to the President of the United States, the 
     Speaker and the Clerk of the United States House of 
     Representatives, the President and the Clerk of the United 
     States Senate, the members of the South Dakota congressional 
     delegation, and the legislatures of each of the several 
     states, attesting the adoption of this resolution by the 
     Legislature of the State of South Dakota.

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