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BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
CHAIRMAN

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin

LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas

STEVE CHABOT, Ohio

DARRELL E. ISSA, California

STEVE KING, lowa

TRENT FRANKS, Arizona

LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas

JIM JORDAN, Ohio

TED POE, Texas

JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah

TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania

TREY GOWDY, South Carolina

RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho

BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas

DOUG COLLINS, Georgia

RON DeSANTIS, Florida

KEN BUCK, Colorado

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas

MARTHA ROBY, Alabama

MATT GAETZ, Florida

MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana

ANDY BIGGS, Arizona

ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

Congress of the Wnited States

House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 RAYBURN House OFFice BUILDING

WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6216
(202) 225-3951

http://www. house.gov/judiciary

May 15, 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,

JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
RANKING MEMBER

JERROLD NADLER, New York
ZOE LOFGREN, California

SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas

STEVE COHEN, Tennessee

HENRY C. “HANK” JOHNSON, JR., Georgia
TED DEUTCH, Florida

LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois

KAREN BASS, California

CEDRIC L. RICHMOND, Louisiana

HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES, New York

DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island

ERIC SWALWELL, California

TED LIEU, California

JAMIE RASKIN, Maryland

PRAMILA JAYAPAL, Washington

BRAD SCHNEIDER, Illinois

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Indiana, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1979, 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.

Sincerely,

& ‘oodlatte

Chairman


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STATE OF INDIANA
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SECRETARY OF STATE
I, EDWIN J. SIMCOX , Secretary of State, of the State of Indiana, hereby

certify that the following and hereto attached is a full, true and complete copy of

SENATE ENROLLED
JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8

Approved: April 4, 1979
4:30 p.m.

Filed: April 4, 1979
4:33 p.m.

as the same appears on file, as the law directs, in this office:

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and

affized the seal of the State of Indiana, at the City of

Indianapolis, thi.



First Regular Session 101st General Assembly

PRINTING CODE—The parts in this style type are
additions to the text of the existing section of the
law. The parts in thie style type are deletions from
the text of the existing section of the law. The absence
of either of the above type styles in an amendatory
SECTION indicates that an entirely new section or
chapter is to be added to the existing law.

SENATE ENROLLED
JOINT RESOLUTION No. 8

AJOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Congress to call a convention for the
purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to
the effect that, in the absence of a national emergency, 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.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of
Indiana:

SECTION 1. The General Assembly of the State of Indiana
makes application to the Congress of the United States for a
convention to be called under Article V of the Constitution of
the United States for the specific and exclusive purpose of
proposing an amendment to the Constitution to the effect that,
in the absence of a national emergency, 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.

SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Senate is instructed to
transmit a certified copy of this joint resolution to the President
of the Senate of the Congress of the United States, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United
States, the presiding officer of each chamber of each state
legislature in the United States, and each member of the
Indiana congressional delegation.