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House of Representatives of the United States Congress and to all
members of the Texas delegation to congress; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That official copies of this resolution also be
Prepared and forwarded to the secretaries of state and to the
presiding officers of the legislatures of the other states with the
request that they join this state in making application to the
United States Congress to call a convention for proposing the:

aforementioned amendment to the United States Constitution.



H.C.Re No» 31
for the sole purpose of proposing amendments. We believe such
action vital; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, the Senate concurring, That the 65th Legislature propose to
the Congress of the United States that procedures be instituted in
the congress to add a new article to the Constitution of the United
States, and that the State of Texas request the congress to prepare
and submit to the several states an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States requiring, in the absence of a national
emergency, that the total of all federal appropriations made by the
conaress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all
estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year; and, be it further

RESOLVED, Thatry alternatively, this body request that the
Congress of the United States call a constitutional convention for
the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the
federal constitution requiring in the absence of a national
emergency that 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; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this body also propose that the leaislatures
of each of the several states comprising the United States apply to
the congress requesting the enactment of an appropriate amendment
to the federal constitution; or requiring the congress to call a
constitutional convention for proposing such an amendment to the
federal constitution; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That official copies of this resolution be prepared

‘and forwarded to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the

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: President of the Senate ! Speaker of the House

I certify that H.C.R. No, 31 was adopted by the House on May

seitig of the House

I certify that H.C.R. No. 31 was adopted by the Senate on May

23, 1977, by a non=<record vote,

30, 1977, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays 6.

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED:

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BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan

CHAIRMAN RANKING MEMBER

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR., Wisconsin JERROLD NADLER, New York
LAMAR S. SMITH, Texas ZOE LOFGREN, California
STEVE CHABOT, Ohio ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS SHEILA JACKSON LEE, Texas
DARRELL E. ISSA, California STEVE COHEN, Tennessee

STEVE KING, lowa

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TRENT FRANKS, Arizona Con T’SS 0 the Anited CCG Fee EU TCH onde
LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas ta (UIs V. GUTIERREZ, Minois

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TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island
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MATT GAETZ, Florida
MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana
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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,

Pursuant to section 3(c) of House Resolution 5 (1 14" Congress), I hereby designate the attached
Memorial from the State of Texas, 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.
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Bob Goodlatte
Chairman


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Che State of Cexas

SECRETARY OF STATE

I, GEORGE W. STRAKE, JR., Secretary of State of
the State of Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the attached
is a true and correct copy of House Concurrent Resolution
Number 31 as passed by the 65th Legislature, Regular Session,

1977, signed by the Governor on June 16, 1977 and filed in this

office on June 16, 1977.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
signed my name officially and caused to be im-
pressed hereon the Seal of State at my office in
the City of Austin, this

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9th day of..........-March___, A. D. 19 79.

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H,C,R, No, 31

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, With each passing year this nation becomes more
deeply in debt as its expenditures grossly and repeatedly exceed
available revenues, so that the public debt now exceeds hundreds of
billions of dollars; and

WHEREAS, The annual federal budget continually demonstrates
an unwillingness or inability of both the legislative and executive
branches of the federal government to curtail spending to conform
to available revenues; and

WHEREAS, Unified budgets do not reflect actual spending
because of the exclusion of special outlays which are not included
in the budget nor subject to the legal public debt limit; and

WHEREAS, Knowledgeable planning, fiscal prudence, and plain
good sense require that the budaet reflect all federal spending and
be in balance; and

WHEREAS, Believing that fiscal irresponsibility at the
federal level, with the inflation which results from this policy,
fs the greatest threat which faces our nation, we firmly believe
that constitutional restraint is necessary to bring the fiscal
discipline needed to restore financial responsibility; and

WHEREAS, Under Article V of the Constitution of the United
States, amendments to the federal constitution May be proposed by
the congress whenever two-thirds of both houses deem it necessary,
or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the

Several states the congress shall call a constitutional convention

A.

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