Bill Text: TX HJR25 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Supporting the ratification of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for a balanced federal budget.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Ways & Means [HJR25 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HJR25-Introduced.html
  85R1816 MK-D
 
  By: Raymond H.J.R. No. 25
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  supporting the ratification of a proposed amendment to the
  Constitution of the United States providing for a balanced federal
  budget.
         BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  The Legislature of the State of Texas by this
  resolution states its support of and intention to ratify, under
  Article V of the United States Constitution, an amendment to the
  Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal
  budget as proposed by House Joint Resolution No. ___ or Senate Joint
  Resolution No. ___ of the ___th Congress of the United States.
         SECTION 2.  The secretary of state of this state shall:
               (1)  notify the archivist of the United States of the
  action of the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular
  Session, 2017, by sending the archivist a copy of this resolution;
  and
               (2)  send copies of this resolution to the United
  States senators from Texas, to all United States representatives
  from Texas, to the vice president of the United States, and to the
  speaker of the United States House of Representatives with the
  request that it be printed in full in the Congressional Record.
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