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Regular Session, 1975

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 269

BY MESSRS. R. GUIDRY, JENKINS, ABADIE, ACCARDO, ALARIO, ANZALONE,
BAKER, BARES, BIGBY, BLOUNT, BORRELLO, BRADY, BRINKHAUS,
CASEY, COOPER, DEEN, D'GEROLAMO, DISCHLER, DOUCET, DREW,
DUNN, DYER, ENSMINGER, FOWLER, FOX, GAUDIN, GIBBS, GILBERT,
GREGSON, GRISBAUM, GUNTER, HAINKEL, HEBERT, HOLSTEAD,
HUMPHRIES, M. J. LABORDE, LANCASTER, LEBLEU, MARTIN,
MCLEOD, MILLER, MILLS, O'NEAL, PATTI, RICE, ROBILLARD,
ROWLEY, SCHMITT, SCOGIN, SHANNON, SHERIDAN, SIMONEAUX,
SOUR, STEPHENSON, STRAIN, TAPPER, M. THOMPSON, R..S.

THOMPSON, TOCA, ULLO, VIDRINE, VILLAR, WILSON AND
WOMACK AND SENATOR W. D. BROWN

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To make application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention
for the sole and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the

Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget

and to make certain exceptions with respect thereto.

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of
Louisiana, the Senate thereof concurring, that the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby make application to the Congress of the United States pursuant
to Article V of the Constitution of the United States to call a convention
for the sole and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitu~
tion of the United States to require a balanced federal budget and to make
certain exceptions with respect thereto.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this application be transmitted to
the presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives of
Congress, the members of the Congressional delegation from the state of

Louisiana, and to the presiding officers of each house of the various state

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legislatures.



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

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR,, Wisconsin JERROLD NADLER, New York
LAMAR 8. SMITH, Texas, ‘OE LO} r

STEVE CHABOT,

DARRELL E, ISSA, California ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS
J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia

STEVE KING, lo ‘ PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico
‘TRENT FRANKS, Arizona q y ( JUDY CHU, California

LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas » TED DEUTCH, Fiorids

4 LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Ilinois

Pe KAREN BASS, California

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ae eas

SCOTT PETERS, Cali

DOUG COLLINS, Georgia
RON DeSANTIS, Florida 2138 RavBuRN House OFFice BUILDING
MIMI WALTERS, California

KEN BUCK, Colorado

JOHN RATCLIFFE, Texas WASHINGTON, DC 20515-6216
DAVE TROTT, Michigan :
MIKE BISHOP, Michigan (202) 225-3951

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October 3, 2016

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 (114" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Louisiana, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1975, 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,

(st Jolt

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


SECRETARY OF STATE
Ab Feeretary of Hlate, of the Hale of Louisiana, I da hereby Certify lhatl

the annexed and following pages contain a true and correct copy of

HCR No. 269 of the 1975 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature

as shown by comparison with the original on file in the archives of

this office.

In leslimeny whereof, S hare hereunto sot
my hand and caused the Seal of my Yfice
lo be affixed at the City of Baton Rouge on,
June 12, 1978.

FRANKLIN PRINTING C0. INC. NO.

CERTIFICATE SS 102


Regular Session, 1975
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 269

BY MESSRS. R. GUIDRY, JENKINS, ABADIE, ACCARDO, ALARIO, ANZALONE,
BAKER, BARES, BIGBY, BLOUNT, BORRELLO, BRADY, BRINKHAUS,
CASEY, COOPER, DEEN, D'GEROLAMO, DISCHLER, DOUCET, DREW,
DUNN, DYER, ENSMINGER, FOWLER, FOX, GAUDIN, GIBBS, GILBERT,
GREGSON, GRISBAUM, GUNTER, HAINKEL, HEBERT, HOLSTEAD,
HUMPHRIES, M. J. LABORDE, LANCASTER, LEBLEU, MARTIN,
MCLEOD, MILLER, MILLS, O'NEAL, PATTI, RICE, ROBILLARD,
ROWLEY, SCHMITT, SCOGIN, SHANNON, SHERIDAN, SIMONEAUX,
SOUR, STEPHENSON, STRAIN, TAPPER, M. THOMPSON, R. S.
THOMPSON, TOCA, ULLO, VIDRINE, VILLAR, WILSON AND
WOMACK AND SENATOR W. D. BROWN

| A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To make application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention
for the sole and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the

i Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget

Hi and to make certain exceptions with respect thereto.

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