Bill Text: MO HCR19 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Submits an official application by the State of Missouri for the calling of a convention for proposing amendments to the United States Constitution
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Dropped from Calendar - Rule 44 (H) [HCR19 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2011-HCR19-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
House Concurrent Resolution No. 19
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES GATSCHENBERGER (Sponsor), FRANZ, LONG, KOENIG, DIEHL, BARNES, SCHARNHORST, MOLENDORP, KELLEY (126), FITZWATER, JONES (89), NANCE, NOLTE, BROWN (50), PACE, JONES (117), RICHARDSON, PARKINSON, DENISON, HINSON, ZERR, SCHOELLER, SCHATZ, REIBOLDT, SCHIEFFER, LARGENT, ALLEN, GUERNSEY, RIDDLE, LANT, LEACH, BROWN (85), LICHTENEGGER, GRISAMORE, DUGGER, SCHAD, COX, LOEHNER, BAHR, COOKSON, FRAKER, BURLISON AND WIELAND (Co-sponsors).
AN ACT
Relating to the calling of a convention proposing amendments to the United States Constitution.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides authority for a Convention to be called by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution upon application of two-thirds of the Legislatures of the several states ("amendments convention"); and
WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Missouri favors the proposal and ratification of an amendment to said Constitution which shall provide that an increase in the federal debt requires approval from a majority of the Legislatures of the separate States:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives of the Ninety-sixth General Assembly, First Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein, hereby respectfully applies, as provided for in Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for an amendments convention to be called for the purpose of proposing an amendment which shall provide that an increase in the federal debt requires approval from a majority of the Legislatures of the separate States; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the amendments convention contemplated by this application shall be entirely focused upon and exclusively limited to the subject matter of proposing for ratification an amendment to the Constitution providing that an increase in the federal debt requires approval from a majority of the Legislatures of the separate States; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until at least two-thirds of the Legislatures of the several States have made application for an equivalently limited amendments convention; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this application be dispatched by the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation, and the presiding officers of each house of the several State Legislatures requesting their cooperation in applying for the amendments convention limited to the subject matter contemplated by this application.
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