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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the Federal Government from using the power of taxation to compel someone to engage in commercial activity.

Bill: 113-hjres-27
Sponsor: Rep. Bentivolio, Kerry L. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2013-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: 

Constitutional Amendment 
- Denies Congress the power to lay and collect taxes: (1) to compel any person or persons to engage in commercial activity, or (2) from any person or persons for a failure to engage in any form of commercial activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the power of Congress to impose a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services.

Bill: 113-hjres-28
Sponsor: Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]
Introduced: 2013-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from making any law that imposes a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.

Bill: 113-hjres-29
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) the rights protected by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only; (2) artificial entities (such as corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state) shall have no rights under the Constitution and are subject to regulation by the people, through federal, state, or local law; and (3) the privileges of such artificial entities shall not be construed to be inherent or inalienable.
 
Directs federal, state and local government to: (1) regulate, limit, or prohibit contributions and expenditures, including a candidate's own contributions and expenditures, for the purpose of influencing the election of any candidate for public office or any ballot measure; and (2) require that any permissible contributions and expenditures be publicly disclosed. Prohibits the judiciary from construing the spending of money to influence elections to be speech under the First Amendment.
 
Prohibits this amendment from being construed to abridge the freedom of the press. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of years Representatives and Senators may serve.

Bill: 113-hjres-30
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to nine terms and Members of the Senate to three terms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures in political campaigns and to enact public financing systems for such campaigns.

Bill: 113-hjres-31
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2013-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits construction of the Constitution as forbidding Congress or the states from: (1) imposing reasonable content-neutral limitations on private campaign contributions or independent election expenditures; or (2) enacting systems of public campaign financing, including those designed to restrict the influence of private wealth by offsetting campaign spending or independent expenditures with increased public funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to regulate campaign contributions for Federal elections.

Bill: 113-hjres-32
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2013-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
First Amendment rights
Political advertising
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Gives Congress the power to prohibit, limit, and otherwise regulate the contribution of funds or donation of in-kind equivalents: (1) to candidates standing for election to a federal office in the United States, and (2) prohibit, limit, and otherwise regulate the expenditure of funds or donation of in-kind equivalents used to support or purchase media advertisements intended to influence the outcome of any such election.
 
Gives each of the several states the power to prohibit, limit, and otherwise regulate the contribution of funds or donation of in-kind equivalents: (1) to candidates standing for election to public office in the state, and (2) prohibit, limit, and otherwise regulate expenditure of funds or donation of in-kind equival;ents used to support or purchase media advertisements intended to influence the outcome of any such election or plebiscite in the state.
 
Prohibits any person who is not a U.S. citizen or is a foreign government, or acts as an agent of one, from: (1) contributing funds or donating in-kind equivalents to candidates standing for election to public office in the United States, or (2) otherwise expending funds or donating in-kind equivalents in a manner intended to influence the outcome of an election for public office or plebiscite in the United States.
 
States that the powers provided by this amendment are limited to the content neutral regulation of political contributions and political expenditures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit a law increasing the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of Representatives has intervened, and to permit a law otherwise varying such compensation to take effect upon enactment.

Bill: 113-hjres-33
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2013-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any law increasing the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives from taking effect until an election of Representatives has intervened.
 
Repeals the twenty-seventh amendment to the Constitution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to restore the rights of the American people that were taken away by the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case and related decisions, to protect the integrity of our elections, and to limit the corrosive influence of money in our democratic process.

Bill: 113-hjres-34
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-21]
Introduced: 2013-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that, whereas the right to vote in public elections belongs only to natural persons as U.S. citizens, so shall the ability to make contributions and expenditures to influence the outcome of public elections belong only to natural persons. 
 
Declares that nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to restrict the power of Congress and the states to protect the integrity and fairness of the electoral process, limit the corrupting influence of private wealth in public elections, and guarantee the dependence of elected officials on the people alone by taking certainactions.
 
Includes among such actions: (1) the establishment of systems of public financing for elections; (2) the imposition of requirements to ensure the disclosure of contributions and expenditures made to influence the outcome of a public election by candidates, individuals, and associations of individuals; and (3) the imposition of content neutral limitations on all such contributions and expenditures.
 
Declares that nothing in this Article shall be construed to alter freedom of the press.
 
Grants Congress and the states power to enforce this Amendment through appropriate legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to balance the Federal budget.

Bill: 113-hjres-35
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits all outlays for a fiscal year (including those for debt service and other debt functions) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a two-thirds roll call vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. 
 
Requires a two-thirds roll call vote of each chamber to increase the public debt limit. 
Prohibits outlays for the total budget from exceeding the previous fiscal years' outlays plus population growth and inflation, unless such increase is approved by two-thirds of each chamber by a roll call vote. 
Directs the House of Representatives to develop a balanced budget annually. 
Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by two-thirds of each chamber by a roll call vote. 
Authorizes waivers of these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect only by a vote of a majority of both chambers. 
 Requires all: (1) outlays above revenues from the previous fiscal year to be accounted for in the outlays and budgets of the following fiscal year; and (2) surplus revenues at the end of a fiscal year to be allocated to a fund to be returned to the taxpayers, determined by legislation before the end of the subsequent fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution requiring that each agency and department's funding is justified.

Bill: 113-hjres-36
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2013-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Executive agency funding and structure
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts.
 
Prohibits total outlays for any fiscal year from exceeding the following:
 
 
 for the first fiscal year for which this Amendment takes effect, 20% of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States for that year, and
 
 for each subsequent fiscal year, a percentage of the estimated GDP equal to the applicable percentage for the preceding fiscal year reduced by .1%.
 
 
States, however, that spending for any fiscal year is not required to be less than 16% of the estimated GDP.
 
Requires a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber to increase the public debt limit. 
Directs the President to submit a balanced budget (budget plan) to Congress annually. 
Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a three-fifths majority of the whole number of each chamber by rollcall vote. 
Requires the budget plan to include a justification by each federal department or agency for any funding proposed in that plan. 
Authorizes waivers of these requirements: (1) when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict, or (2) during declaration of a natural disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States limiting the number of times Senators and Representatives may be elected.

Bill: 113-hjres-37
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2013-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-18
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution And Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Bill: 113-hjres-38
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2013-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. 
 
Requires a three-fifths rollcall vote of each chamber to increase the public debt limit. 
Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress annually. 
Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of each chamber by rollcall vote. 
Authorizes waivers of these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Bill: 113-hjres-39
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2013-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
General taxation matters
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the concurrence of two-thirds of the Members of each house of Congress for final adoption of any legislation changing the internal revenue laws, unless such legislation is determined not to increase the internal revenue by more than a de minimis amount.
 
Permits a waiver of this requirement when a declaration of war is in effect or when the United States is engaged in military conflict which causes an imminent and serious threat to national security and is so declared by a joint resolution which becomes law. Prohibits any increase in the internal revenue enacted under such a waiver from lasting more than two years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of crime victims.

Bill: 113-hjres-40
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits denial or abridgement of the rights of a crime victim to fairness, respect, and dignity. Grants a crime victim the right: (1) to reasonable notice of, and to not be excluded from, public proceedings relating to the offense; (2) to be heard at any release, plea, sentencing, or other such proceeding involving any right established under this amendment; (3) to proceedings free from unreasonable delay; (4) to reasonable notice of the release or escape of the accused; (5) to due consideration of the crime victim's safety and privacy; and (6) to restitution.
 
Grants the crime victim, or the victim's lawful representative, standing to fully assert and enforce such rights in any court. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2013-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

Bill: 113-hjres-41
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2013-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional elections
Constitution and constitutional amendments
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify that the Constitution neither prohibits voluntary prayer nor requires prayer in schools.

Bill: 113-hjres-42
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2013-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Elementary and secondary education
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: 
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits anything in the Constitution, including amendments, from being construed to prohibit voluntary prayer or require prayer in a public school, or to prohibit voluntary prayer or require prayer at a public school extracurricular activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.

Bill: 113-hjres-43
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Due process and equal protection
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: 
Eliminates the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972. Declares that such amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-12
text: Ms. Speier asked unanimous consent that she be considered the first sponsor of H.J. Res. 43, removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment, a bill originally introduced by Representative Robert Andrews of New Jersey, for the purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting re-printings pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12.
action_date: 2013-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-05-09
text: Introduced in House