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Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 7 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 4 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to pass any concurrent resolution on the budget which carries a deficit.
Bill· HRH.R. 500 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Federal Constitutional Convention Procedures Act - Sets forth procedures for Federal constitutional conventions with respect to: (1) applications, (2) calling, (3) delegates, (4) convening, (5) operation, (6) congressional approval, (7) ratification, (8) rescission of ratification, and (9) proclamation of constitutional amendments.
Bill· HRH.R. 454 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Redesignates the Canal Zone Code as the Panama Canal Code. Enacts technical amendments in such Code and laws of the United States to reflect the administration of the Canal by the Panama Canal Commission, and the transfer of the Canal to the Republic of Panama under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Directs the President to submit to Congress proposed legislation to revise laws which are applicable only during the Canal transition period, and to incorporate the remaining provisions of the Panama Canal Code into the United States Code. Title I: Panamanian Relations and Security Matters - Directs the President to appoint the United States representatives to the Joint Commission on the Environment and to any joint committee with Panama to study a sea level canal in that country. Requires Congressional authorization for the construction of a sea level canal. Directs the President to designate the United States representatives to the Consultative Committee between the United States and Panama. Repeals security legislation with respect to use of the Canal during a national emergency. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to repeal the applicability of arms export or import licensing requirements to the Panama Canal. Directs the Secretary of State to periodically furnish Panama with a list of persons entitled to the privileges and immunities specified in the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Repeals the designation as the Canal Zone of areas specified in the 1903 treaty with Panama. Repeals the President's authorization: (1) to acquire or exchange land for the operation of the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone; and (2) to designate towns and subdivisions of the Zone. Terminates the Canal Zone Government and the position of Canal Zone Governor. Repeals procedures regulating revocable licenses for lands in the Canal Zone. Repeals all provisions in the Panama Canal Code with respect to extradition of fugitives in the Canal Zone to Panama. Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission, other agencies and departments, and the United States courts in Panama, to transfer their records to other agencies, departments, or courts of the United States, and (with the approval of the Ambassador) to the Government of Panama. Title II: Panama Canal Commission - Establishes the Panama Canal Commission as a corporation and agency of the United States to succeed the Panama Canal Company. Repeals provisions of the Panama Canal Code relating to interest payments by the Panama Canal Company on the direct investment of the United States in such Company. Revises procedures by which the Panama Canal Commission shall account for its capital surplus and pay dividends on such investment. Repeals the requirement that the Panama Canal Company reimburse the Treasury for certain annuity payments and for the operational costs of the Canal Zone Government. Requires the Panama Canal Commission to make certain payments from the Canal operating revenues to Panama, as required by the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Repeals the authorization of the Secretary of Treasury to make annual payments to Panama under the Treaty of 1955. Defines payments by the Commission to Panama for public services as an operating cost of the Commission. Sets forth procedures for the appointment of the Commission Board of Directors and administrative officers. Revises the amenability of the Commission to suits. Makes the powers of the Commission subject to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Repeals the subjection of the Commission to other treaties and laws of the United States. Repeals the "deemed acceptance" by the Panama Canal Company of certain property, facilities, and personnel, transferred to the Company by the President. Directs the transfer of certain assets and liabilities of the Panama Canal Company to the Commission. Transfers from the President to the Commission the authority to prescribe regulations governing Canal navigation. Repeals the authorization for the consolidation of the funds of the Commission and the Canal Zone Government. Directs the Department of Defense to reimburse the Commission for Commission expenditures for the maintenance of defense facilities. Authorizes Department of Defense appropriations to be expended for certain education and health services formerly carried out by the Canal Zone Government. Prohibits the funds of the Commission to be expended to furnish free health services to Commission employees. Requires Panama to continue to pay for water supplied by the Canal Zone Commission. Authorizes the Commission to utilize funds for disaster relief when a disaster poses hazards to health, safety, security, or property in the Canal Zone. Repeals the authority of the Governor of the Canal Zone to acquire equipment for the Canal Zone. Permits property transfers and cross-servicing agreements between the Commission and the United States departments and agencies. Permits the Commission to prescribe Canal tolls which shall be calculated to cover the maintenance and operation costs of the Canal, subject to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. Repeals settlement authority with respect to claims against the civil government of the Canal Zone. Revises: (1) the procedures for investigating claims against the Commission; (2) the elements of recognizable claims; and (3) the measure of damages of such claims. Imposes a two-year statue of limitations on such claims. Establishes a Board of Local Inspectors of the Panama Canal Commission to inspect claims against the Commission. Requires an action on such a claim to be brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Title III: Employees and Postal Matters - Repeals provisions of the Panama Canal Code relating to the appointment and compensation of Canal Zone Government employees and teachers. Repeals the authorization for deductions from the compensation of Panama Canal Commission employees for amounts due for supplies and services. Repeals restrictions on the hours of work for telegraph operators and train dispatchers of the Commission. Permits the Commission to appoint and compensate its employees. Makes provisions regulating wage and employment practices governing United States employees in the Canal Zone applicable to the Commission. Directs the establishment of a Panama Canal Employment System governing Commission employees and certain United States employees in Panama. Repeals the extension of additional compensation for tax differentials. Permits the payment of overseas recruitment and retention differentials. Permits the transfer of Federal employees to the Commission. States that conditions of employment, placement, and retirement shall not be affected by the transfer of employees of the Panama Canal Company, or the Canal Zone Government, to the Commission or United States agencies in Panama. Sets forth the rights of such employees with respect to placement, educational travel benefits, insurance, compensation adjustment, and early retirement. Specifies that certain judicial officers shall be treated the same as Commission employees. Redefines "employee" for purposes of title 5 of the United States Code. Directs payment to the Social Security System of Panama funds to purchase retirement equity in that system for non-United States citizens retiring under special Treaty provisions. Discontinues the postal service established by the Panama Canal Code. Directs the Panama Canal Commission to assume the funds and obligations of the postal service. Title IV: Courts and Related Functions - Continues the applicability of the Panama Canal Code in conformity to the Treaty. Limits court jurisdiction to that prescribed by the Treaty. Permits the continued operation of the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone within Treaty limitations. Repeals the division of such court. Repeals Canal Zone residency requirements for certain judicial officers. Revises appointment procedures for a special district judge. Revises the operational procedures and continuation contingencies of the magistrates courts established by the Panam Canal Code. Vests in the Panama Canal Commission the authority necessary to carry out United States rights and responsibilities specified in Article XI of the Treaty. Redefines "special immigrants" under the Immigration and Nationality Act to include certain employees of the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government who are Canal Zone residents on the date of the exchange of Treaty ratification instruments. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Deems references to "hospitals," "Health Bureau," and "health director," in the Panama Canal Code to apply to the hospitals operated by the United States in Panama.
Bill· HRH.R. 435 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Permits any State legislature to rescind its ratification of a Constitutional amendment at any time prior to the ratification of such amendment by three-fourths of the State legislatures.
Bill· HRH.R. 379 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Limits the power of any United States court to issue school transportation orders based on race, color, or national origin by requiring a determination that a discriminatory educational purpose was a principal motivating factor in the constitutional violation for which such transportation is proposed as a remedy. Stipulates that only a three-judge district court may issue a school assignment order based on race, color, or national origin. Requires the holding of a special hearing where specific findings in relation to such a constitutional violation must be made before a school assignment order may issue. Stays such school assignment orders until all appeals have been exhausted.
Bill· HRH.R. 233 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Repeals the provisions of Federal law requiring persons prosecuting claims, either as attorneys or on their own account, before any department or agency of the United States, to take the oath of allegiance and to support the Constitution of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 84 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Federal Constitution Convention Amendment Act - Sets forth procedures for Federal constitutional conventions with respect to: (1) applications, (2) calling, (3) delegates, (4) convening, (5) operation, (6) congressional approval, and (7) ratification.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 74 (96th)failed
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence which is located within the school district in which the student resides and which provides the course of study pursued by such student. Grants Congress the power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this amendment, and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 101 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except when physically verifiable facts establish that termination is required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 93 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, the territories and possessions of the United States, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States, and citizens residing abroad shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 35 percent of the whole number of votes cast. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results for such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 89 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total appropriations from exceeding total estimated revenues for any fiscal year. Authorizes suspension of such prohibition for a congressional term in time of war or national emergency upon the concurrence of three-fourths of the Members of both Houses of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 85 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Eliminates the force and effect of any treaty provision which denies or abridges any constitutionally enumerated right. Prohibits a treaty from permitting any foreign power or international organization to supervise, control, or adjudicate (1) the rights of United States citizens within the United States or (2) matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Predicates the effectiveness of a treaty as internal law of the United States upon the passage of appropriate legislation. Requires executive agreements with foreign powers or international organizations to be made in the manner and to the extent prescribed by law.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 81 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires official candidates of political parties for President to be nominated in a closed primary election by direct popular vote. Restricts candidates to the primaries of the parties with which they are respectively affiliated. Directs that a candidate be placed on the appropriate party's ballot in all States if such individual files with the President of the Senate before a certain date a petition signed by a specified number of qualified voters in a specified number of jurisdictions. Recognizes as a political party for purposes of such amendment any party which received at least ten percent of the votes cast for all electors for candidates for President and Vice President in the most recent Presidential election. Sets the date of the primary election as the second Saturday after the first Monday in July in the year preceding the expiration of the regular term of President and Vice President, unless Congress directs otherwise. Designates the person receiving the greatest number votes in the primary as the official party candidate if such votes total at least 40 percent of those cast. Requires a runoff election between the two persons receiving the greatest number of votes in the event that no candidate receives such a plurality. Directs each party to nominate a person who is eligible for nomination as Vice President not less than seven nor more than 30 days after selection of that party's Presidential candidate. Designates a party's Vice Presidential candidate as its Presidential candidate if the Presidential nominee dies, resigns, or is disqualified. Prescribes that a committee composed of party nominees for the House of Representatives shall select party candidates if both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates die, resign, or are disqualified.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 77 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of any inferior court established by Congress from holding office for more than ten years after: (1) taking office; (2) the Senate last consented to his continuance in office; or (3) the ratification of this amendment, whichever last occurs, unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance in office.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 90 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 73 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no appropriations for any fiscal year which exceed the total revenues of the United States for such year. Authorizes the Congress to suspend such requirement by concurrent resolution if the Congress declares war, or the President declares a national emergency. Makes such suspension effective only for the two year term of the Congress which passed such resolution.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 86 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no appropriations for any fiscal year which exceed the total revenues of the United States for such year. Prohibits spending by, or on behalf of, the United States which exceeds the total revenue for that year. Suspends such requirements when Congress declares war or national emergency.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 88 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the total number of electoral votes to be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which each State and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States is entitled in Congress. Establishes a procedure to allocate electoral votes whereby the person receiving a plurality of popular votes for President or Vice President in each State shall receive two electoral votes. Provides that from the remaining number of electoral votes each person receiving votes for President or Vice President shall be credited with a number of electoral votes which bears the same ratio to the total number of such remaining electoral votes as the number of votes received by him for President or Vice President bears to the total number of votes cast for President or Vice President. Grants to Congress the power to establish a uniform time for electing the President and Vice President. Requires each State to compile lists of all persons receiving votes for President or Vice President and the number of votes cast for each person. Directs each State to certify and transmit such lists to Congress at which time the President of the Senate, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall credit votes to each person for whom votes were cast in the manner prescribed by this article. Provides that the person receiving the highest number of total electoral votes for President shall be President and the person receiving the highest number of electoral votes for Vice President shall be Vice President. Stipulates that in the event two or more persons receive equal electoral votes for President or Vice President, the House of Representatives shall choose the President and the Senate shall choose the Vice President.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 99 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 82 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 84 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 65 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that the House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every fourth year. Increases the term of office of a Representative to four years. Terminates the term of a Member of the House who is a candidate for a Senate term commencing in the calendar year in which a presidential term begins. Directs the executive authority of the State from which such Representative was chosen to issue writs of election for a special two-year term for a Member of the House to fill the vacancy created by the candidacy of such Member.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 78 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares vacant the office of any Senator or Representative who fails to be recorded in person on 60 percent of the roll call votes taken during any regular session of Congress unless such roll call votes were missed due to hospitalization required by illness or accident.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 91 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Forbids: (1) any executive agency from issuing a regulation or committing an act not directly authorized by the Congress, under its delegated powers including anything regarding busing; and (2) any United States court from taking any action legislating a new program or type of affirmative action, including busing, not specifically provided for by the Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 61 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any Member of Congress sentenced during any Congress for conviction of a felony from continuing to serve as a Member of such Congress after the date of sentencing.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 76 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 87 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 70 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Permits prayer in public places or institutions. Permits religious instruction in public places or institutions, including schools, if provided under private auspices. Prohibits any infringement of the right to pray or to receive religious instruction.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 57 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States and the District constituting the Seat of Government of the United States shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest number of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results for such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 83 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to review, at specified times, the estimated revenue and budgeted expenditures of the Government and, if expenditures are found to exceed revenues, to levy a surtax so that receipts equal expenditures. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 53 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to review Government revenues and expenditures at specified times and to determine a surtax rate when expenditures exceed revenues to insure that receipts will equal outlays. Authorizes the suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 66 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 49 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except when it is a medical certainty that termination is required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 64 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except pursuant to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 75 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to annually compute the gross national product of the United States. Limits the expenditures of the Government in any year to 20 percent of the gross national product of the preceding year. Requires the United States to maintain a balanced budget each year. Permits such limitations to be suspended during a period of grave national emergency or time of war by a concurrent resolution agreed to by two-thirds of the authorized membership of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 62 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Limits any increase in Federal spending from the previous fiscal year to the average annual percentage increase in the gross national product for the preceding three years. Permits the suspension of such limitation for two years in time of war or national emergency upon the passage of a concurrent resolution by a three-fourths vote of both Houses of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 45 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization, and entitled to the right to life.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 60 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits any law increasing the compensation of Senators and Representatives from taking effect earlier than the following Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 58 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 41 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency. Prohibits any increase in the national debt as it exists on the date this article is ratified. Sets forth a schedule for repayment of the national debt.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 54 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a student from being required to attend a particular school because of his race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce provisions of this amendment by appropriate legislation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 67 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the enactment and repeal of laws by popular vote. Excludes specified areas, including the right to: (1) propose constitutional amendments; (2) declare war; and (3) call forth the militia. Requires a petition signed by at least three percent of the registered voters and which includes the signatures of registered voters in each of ten States equal to three percent of the ballots cast in the east general election for President in each of the ten States in order to place such an issue on the ballot. Requires a majority vote for a proposed law to become law. Declares that any law to repeal or amend a law passed by popular vote during the two years immediately following its effective date must receive an affirmative rollcall vote of two-thirds of the Members of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 56 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Deems every human being to be a person from the moment of fertilization, and entitled to the right to life.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 37 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Allows for enactment and repeal of laws by popular vote. Excludes specified areas, including the right (1) to propose constitutional amendments; (2) to declare war; (3) to propose any law making specific expenditures or limiting appropriations for defense; or (4) relating to foreign affairs. Requires a petition signed by at least eight percent of the whole number of citizens in each of a number of States equal to at least one more than one-half the number of States who voted in the most recent election for electors for President, in order to place such an issue on the ballot. Requires a majority vote in each of at least three-fourths of the States for a proposed law to become law. Declares that no law passed by popular vote shall be subject to the approval of the President or to amendment or repeal, except by another popular vote or by a two-thirds vote of the Members of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 50 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the President and Vice President shall serve a term of six years, and that no person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice. Declares that Members of the House of Representatives shall serve three-year terms. Limits to 12 years the aggregate period a person may serve as a Representative or Senator, and 18 years the aggregate period a person may serve as a Senator and Representative.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 63 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires any change in the U.S. tax law to increase Federal revenue to be approved by not less than two-thirds of all Members of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 33 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government, during any fiscal year, do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. Provides for the phased implementation of this requirement after the ratification of this amendment. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of national emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fourth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 19 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to five percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fourth year fiscal year.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 52 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Requires any change in the U.S. tax law to increase Federal revenue to be approved by not less than two-thirds of all Members of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 46 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the offering of prayers or Biblical scriptures, as long as participation is voluntary, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Permits references to God or a Supreme Being in public documents, proceedings, schools, or upon U.S. currency.
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