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ID HCR018
Concurrent Resolution
Status
Introduced
3/11/2015
Primary Sponsor
Ways and Means Committee
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AI Summary
- Idaho formally applies to Congress under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to call a convention of states limited to proposing a balanced budget amendment.
- The proposed amendment would prohibit total federal appropriations from exceeding estimated federal revenues in any fiscal year, except in cases of national emergency, along with related fiscal restraints.
- Idaho's application is to be aggregated with previously-adopted balanced budget amendment applications from 22 other states (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).
- The Idaho Secretary of State is directed to transmit copies of this application to Congress, Idaho's federal delegation, the Archivist of the United States, and presiding officers of all other state legislatures, requesting their cooperation.
- This application constitutes a continuing application and supersedes all previous applications by Idaho legislature on the same subject until two-thirds of states have made similar applications.
Legislative Description
Stating findings of the Legislature and applying to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for calling 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.
FEDERAL BUDGET
Last Action
Reported Printed and Referred to State Affairs
3/12/2015
Committee Referrals
State Affairs3/12/2015
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