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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
application to congress for the calling of a convention to propose amendments to the constitution.
WHEREAS, a concurrent resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Hawaii making application to the Congress of the United States under Article V of the United States Constitution, for the calling of a convention for proposing amendments limited to specified subject areas is presented; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, the House of Representatives concurring, as follows:
SECTION 1. The Legislature of the State of Hawaii hereby makes application to the Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a convention-for-proposing-amendments.
SECTION 2. This application is for a convention limited to considering and proposing amendments on the following subjects:
(1) Improving the fiscal management of the federal government by imposing requirements, with any stated exceptions, that federal expenditures during a fixed time period not exceed federal revenues or anticipated revenues during that time period; imposing prohibitions and/or limits on federal debt; and/or imposing limits on expenditures, revenue, and/or taxes.
(2) Improving the legislative process by requiring that all bills, orders, votes, and resolutions introduced in and passed by Congress contain only a single subject and/or by providing a minimum time period before passage for bills, orders, votes and resolutions to be reviewed by members of Congress and members of the general public.
(3) Restraining the powers of the federal government by clarifying that the Constitution does not authorize Congress to employ its spending power to regulate activities otherwise outside its enumerated powers and/or prohibiting mandates or requirements on any state, subdivision of any state, or any official thereof, unless the federal government fully funds the cost of compliance.
(4) Empowering the legislatures of the several states, with stated exceptions, to repeal all or certain acts of Congress and/or administrative regulations.
SECTION 3. This application shall be deemed an application for a convention to address each and any of the subjects in section 2. For purposes of the determining whether two thirds of the states have applied for a convention addressing any subject, this application is to be aggregated with the applications of any other state legislatures limited to one or more of the subjects in section 2.
SECTION 4. This is a continuing application and remains in effect until rescission by any sitting session of the legislature of this state. This application does not constitute a recognition that any particular activity or activities currently undertaken by the federal government is or are authorized by the Constitution.
SECTION 5. The lieutenant governor is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, the Archivist of the United States, and copies to the members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives who represent this State; also to transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the legislative chambers in the several States, requesting their cooperation.
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Application Resolution; Convention to Propose Amendments to the Constitution.