ORIGINAL HOUSE
JOINT RESOLUTION. HJ0002

ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2017 GENERAL SESSION

Section 4. That the Secretary of State of Wyoming
transmit copies of this resolution to the President of the
United States, to the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United
States Congress, to the Wyoming Congressional Delegation
and to the presiding officers of each of the legislative
houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation.

(END)

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TIME APPROVED: 7 SF sa
DATE APPROVED: 3 — 57/7

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

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808 GOODLATTE, Virginia JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
CHAIRMAN RANKING MINORITY MEMBER

G.S. House of Representatives

Committee on the Judictary

Washington, BC 20515-6216
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

April 11, 2017

The Honorable Karen Haas

Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Madam Clerk,

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Wyoming, received by the House of Representatives in the year 2017, as
purporting to be an application of the State legislature calling for a convention for proposing amendments
to the Constitution of the United States pursuant to Article V, and request that you make it publicly
available.

Te
Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


ORIGINAL HOUSE
JOINT RESOLUTION. HJ0002

ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2017 GENERAL SESSION

A JOINT RESOLUTION petitioning Congress to call a
convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the
United States to require a balanced federal budget.

WHEREAS, the legislature of the State of Wyoming is
petitioning 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.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING:

Section 1. That pursuant to Article V of the
Constitution of the United States, the legislature of the
State of Wyoming 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.

Section 2. 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, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North


ORIGINAL HOUSE
JOINT RESOLUTION. HJ0002

ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2017 GENERAL SESSION

Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. This
application shall be aggregated with those applications for
the purpose of attaining the two-thirds (2/3) of states
necessary to require Congress to call a convention for
proposing a balanced budget amendment, but shall not be
aggregated with any applications on any other subject.

Section 3. 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 (2/3) of the several states have made
applications on the same subject. This application
supersedes all previous applications by this legislature on
the same subject.