STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Senators Green, Jones, Colbeck, Pappageorge, Proos, Robertson, Marleau, Booher, Jansen, Brandenburg, Casperson, Caswell, Emmons, Hansen, Hildenbrand, Hune, Kahn, Kowall, Meekhof, Moolenaar, Nofs, Pavlov, Richardville, Rocca, Schuitmaker and Walker

ENROLLED 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 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 house of each state legislature in the United States.

I hereby certify that on the twenty-sixth day of March, two thousand fourteen, the foregoing joint resolution was agreed to by the Senate, by a majority vote of the Senators elected and serving.

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that on the twentieth day of March, two thousand fourteen, the foregoing joint resolution was agreed to by the House of Representatives, by a majority vote of the Representatives elected and serving.

Clerk of the House of Representatives