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SJRES 9 97th Congress Senate Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Congress and Congressmen Constitution and constitutional amendments Constitutional amendments Deficit financing Federal budgets Law and legislation Legislation National income

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to promote fiscal responsibility.

Introduced: January 5, 1981 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 20, 1981
Subcommittee on Constitution. Hearings held.
Apr 9, 1981
Subcommittee on Constitution. Hearings held.
Mar 11, 1981
Subcommittee on Constitution. Hearings held.
Feb 5, 1981
Referred to Subcommittee on Constitution.
Jan 5, 1981
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary.
Jan 5, 1981
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the adoption of any Federal budget in which expenditures exceed receipts unless approved by a roll call vote of three-fifths of the Members of each House of Congress directed solely to that subject. Prohibits the Congress from passing and the President from signing any appropriation bill which would cause the total expenditures of the Federal Government to exceed its total receipts in any fiscal year. Permits the Congress to waive such provisions with respect to any single year in which a declaration of war is in effect.

Prohibits any annual increase in the proportion of Federal receipts to the national income unless passed by a roll call vote, directed solely to such purpose, of each House of Congress.

What's happening now May 20, 1981

Subcommittee on Constitution. Hearings held.

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