Florida Senate - 2024 SCR By Senator Ingoglia 11-01327A-24 2024324__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Senate Concurrent Resolution A concurrent resolution applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which requires a balanced federal budget. 6

WHEREAS, on April 21, 2010, the Legislature of the State of Florida adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 10, which made application to Congress to call a convention pursuant to

Article V of the Constitution of the United States to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States to achieve and maintain a balanced federal budget and to control the ability of Congress and federal executive agencies to dictate to states requirements for the expenditure of federal funds, and

WHEREAS, on April 21, 2014, the Legislature of the State of Florida adopted Senate Memorial 658, which made application to Congress to call a convention pursuant to

Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget, and

WHEREAS, on May 2, 2023, the Legislature of the State of Florida adopted Senate Memorial 176, finding that, in order to ensure the stability of government and business functions at the local, regional, state, and national levels, it is imperative that the Federal Government take action to cut costs, reduce the tax burden on American families and businesses, operate according to principles of fiscal responsibility and discipline, 28 and balance the federal budget, and urging Congress to take Florida Senate - 2024 SCR 324 11-01327A-24 2024324__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. immediate action to begin to reduce the national debt and enact legislation requiring a balanced federal budget, and

WHEREAS, Congress continues to fail to introduce and enact legislation requiring its members to pass a balanced budget, and

WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Florida intends to conform its application to the active single subject applications made to Congress by the States of Alabama, Alaska, 36 Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, 37 Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, 38 Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming,

NOW, THEREFORE, 41

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the House of Representatives Concurring: 44 45

(1) That the Legislature of the State of Florida applies to Congress, under

Article V of the Constitution of the United States, to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution requiring that, in the absence of a national emergency, the total of all federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year not exceed the total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any related and appropriate fiscal restraints. 53

(2) That this application is to be considered as covering the same subject matter as the presently outstanding balanced budget applications from other states and is to be aggregated with the applications from those states for the purpose of attaining the two-thirds number of states necessary to require Florida Senate - 2024 SCR 324 11-01327A-24 2024324__ CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. the calling of a convention, but may not be aggregated with applications on any other subject calling for a constitutional convention under

Article V of the United States Constitution. 61

(3) That this application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with

Article V of the United States Constitution until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject. 65 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this concurrent resolution is revoked and withdrawn, nullified, and superseded to the same effect as if it had never been adopted, and retroactive to the date of passage, if it is used for the purpose of calling a convention or used in support of conducting a convention to amend the Constitution of the United States with any agenda other than to propose an amendment to the Constitution requiring that, in the absence of a national emergency, the total of all federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year not exceed the total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any related and appropriate fiscal restraints. 77 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this application be dispatched to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, to each member of the Florida delegation to the United States Congress, and to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature of each state. 84