HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SJR-V, As Passed House, March 20, 2014

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION V

A joint resolution to petition the congress of the United

States to call a convention to propose amendments to the

constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal

budget.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

state of Michigan, That pursuant to article V of the constitution

of the United States, the legislature of the state of Michigan

petitions the congress of the United States of America, at its

session, to call a convention of the states limited to proposing an

amendment to the constitution of the United States requiring that

Senate Joint Resolution V (H-1) as amended March 20, 2014

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.

Resolved further, That this application is to be considered as

covering the balanced budget amendment language of the presently

outstanding balanced budget applications from other states,

including, but not limited to, previously adopted applications from

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa,

Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New

Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas; and this

application shall be aggregated with those applications 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 shall not be aggregated with any applications on any

other subject.

Resolved further, That 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.

Resolved further, That certified copies of this joint

resolution be transmitted by the secretary of state to the

president of the United States Senate, to the speaker of the United

States House of Representatives, and to each member of this state's

delegation to the congress and that printed copies be sent to each