“ARTICLE

Section 1. Nothing in this Constitution shall prohibit the United States, or
any state or any political subdivision of any state from the expenditure of public
funds for the support of secular education of children in non-public elementary and
secondary schools. Provided, however, no such expenditure of public funds shall
be made for such purpose where the non-public elementary or secondary school dis-
criminates in its admission policies on the basis of race, creed, color or place of
national origin or in the conduct of its instruction on the basis of race, color or
place of national origin.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been rati-
fied as an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states."

And be it further

Resolved, That if Congress shall have proposed an amendment to the Constitu-
tion identical with that contained in this resolution prior to June first, nineteen
hundred seventy-three, this application for a convention shall no longer be of any
force or effect; and be it further

Resolved, That this application shall constitute a continuing application for
such convention pursuant to Article V until the Legislatures of two-thirds of the
states shall have made like applications and such convention shall have been called
by the Congress of the United States unless previously rescinded by the Legislature
of the State of New York; and be it further

Resolved, That certified copies of this resolution be presented to the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
United States and to the Legislatures of each of the several states attesting the

adoption of this resolution by the Legislature of the State of New York.
By order of the Senate,

SecreMary

Me Wy the Assembly, f
Clerk


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September 27, 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 New York, received by the House of Representatives in the year 1972, 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,

Ii Joolite-

Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


State of New York
Office of the

Serretary of the Senate

Albany
State of New voneles
County of Albany
I; Albert J. Abrams , Secretary of the Senate of the State of New York, do hereby

certify that I have compared the annexed copy of an extract from the Senate Journal for the year

1972 , with reference to Joint Resolution No. 7 of the Legislature of the
State of New York applying to Congress of the United States of America to
call a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States relative to the use of public funds
for secular education

with the original thereof on file in my office, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof,
and of the whole thereof relative to saidzbilix resolution.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of the Senate, this twelfth day
of September , 1972

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Form No. 74
19.63



STATE OF NEW YORK

Che Legislature

ALBANY

Joint Resolution No. 7

May 8, 1972

Joint resolution of the Legislature of the
State of New York applying to the Con-
gress of the United States of America to
call a Constitutional Convention for the
purpose of proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States relative
to the use of public funds for secular
education

IN SENATE
By: Messrs. Brydges, Caemmerer, Donovan, Ferraro, Flynn, Gioffre, Giordano,
Giuffreda, Gordon, Griffin, Knorr, Langley, Lentol, Levy, Lombardi,
Murphy, Rolison, Schermerhorn

IN ASSEMBLY
By: Mr. Duryea

Whereas, The Legislature of the State of New York believes that an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States will permit the several states to use more
direct methods of financing secular education of children in non-public elementary
and secondary schools and that Legislatures of the several states will pass resolutions
applying to the Congress to call a convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States regarding financing secular education of
children; and

Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of the United States grants to the
states the right to initiate constitutional change by applications from the Legislatures
of two-thirds of the several states to the Congress, calling for a Constitutional Con-
vention; and

Whereas, The Legislature of the State of New York believes it to be best for
the interests of the people of the United States that such an amendment be adopted;
now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of New York respectfully applies to
the Congress of the United States to call a Constitutional Convention for the sole and
exclusive purpose of proposing the following amendment to the Constitution of the

United States: