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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 456 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest the residence and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. 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. 455 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide a new procedure for the election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Revises the procedure for the election of the President and Vice President. Grants each Congressional district established by the respective States pursuant to this Article one electoral vote and each State two at large electoral votes, such votes to be cast for the pair of Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates receiving a plurality of popular votes within the appropriate jurisdictions. Stipulates that the pair of candidates receiving the most electoral votes shall be declared President and Vice President.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 51 (95th)referred

A joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1977

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. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 24 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to four percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fifth fiscal year.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 453 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, 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 law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 50 (95th)referred

A joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977

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. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year 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 fifth fiscal year.

Bill· HRH.R. 7008 (95th)referred

Federal Constitution Convention Amendment Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977

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. 450 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the assignment of public school students.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits interpretation of the United States Constitution as requiring school systems which assign pupils on a neighborhood basis to assign such pupils in any other manner. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 448 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1977

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. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth 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 fifth year fiscal year.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 447 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1977

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. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth 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 fifth year fiscal year.

Bill· HRH.R. 6943 (95th)referred

A bill to require that real property in the Canal Zone which is not necessary to the United States for governmental purposes be sold or otherwise transferred for fair market value to appropriate individuals and nongovernmental entities, and to require that the President prepare a detailed proposal for self-government of the Canal Zone under the U.S. Constitution.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977

Provides for the sale of nonessential real property in the Panama Canal Zone to appropriate individuals and nongovernmental entities under a plan to be drafted by the President and subject to Congressional veto. Directs the President to prepare a detailed proposal for self-government of the Canal Zone under the Constitution.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 442 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, 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 law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 437 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right of life.

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, 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 law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 434 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the nomination and election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Limits a President to a single six-year term. Revises the procedure for electing the President and Vice President to, among other charges: (1) designate a party's Vice Presidential candidate to Presidential candidate upon the disability or resignation of the Presidential candidate; (2) abolish the present electoral college system and, determine the President and Vice President by popular votes; (3) establish a back-up electoral vote system to be used if no pair of a Presidential and a Vice Presidential candidates receives a majority of popular votes; and (4) conduct a popular run-off election if no pair receives a majority of electoral votes.

Bill· HRH.R. 6786 (95th)referred

A bill to exercise the power of the Congress under article IV of the Constitution to declare the effect of certain State judicial proceedings respecting the custody of children.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977

Directs that orders of a State court or a court of the District of Columbia relative to the custody of children of divorced or separated parents be given full faith and credit by every other State and the District of Columbia until such issuing court no longer has under the law of the State in which it is located, or declines to exercise, jurisdiction over modifications of such orders.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 422 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced Federal budget.

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit an annual estimate of total revenues to Congress. Imposes an income tax surtax, at a percentage rate to be determined by the President, to provide additional revenue equal to the amount by which total receipts of the Government exceed total outlays in any fiscal year when the Federal budget does not balance. Authorizes the suspension of such surtax in time of war or national emergency.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 423 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for three-year terms for Representatives to the Congress, to limit the number of consecutive terms Representatives may serve, and to provide an age limit for Representatives.

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Members of the House of Representatives shall serve for a term of three years. States that any person who is a Representative for five consecutive terms may not be a Representative during the three-year period followed the fifth term with an exception for vacancies. Stipulates that no person may serve as a Representative after attaining the age of 75 or if attaining the age of 75 before the end of a term.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 414 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the busing or involuntary assignment of students.

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977

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. 415 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right of life.

United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protection shall apply to human beings, including the unborn irrespective of age, health, ability to function or condition of dependency. Prohibits the deprivation of life to an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures which physically verifiable facts establish are required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 405 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing an item veto in appropriations.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment- Allows an item veto by the President of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing the bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Provides that such bills shall be subjected to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 401 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest the residence and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. 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. 406 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing an item veto in appropriations.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment- Allows an item veto by the President of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing the bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Provides that such bills shall be subjected to the same proceeding as other bills disapproved by the President.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 407 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for the protection of unborn children and other persons.

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977

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. 397 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter 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 voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for voters for 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 for such offices. Provides that if 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 of 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. 392 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. Authorizes the election of two Senators and the number of Representatives in the House to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. Provides that this amendment shall have no effect upon the present system for selecting the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 384 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter 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 voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for voters for 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 for such offices. Provides that if 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 of 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. 373 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, 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 Members of Congress from that State, 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 and age requirements. 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 for such offices. 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 of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Grants to each State the authority as to the time and place and manner of holding such elections and entitlement to inclusion or the ballot. Specifies that if, at the time fixed for declaring the results of such elections, the presidential candidate who would have been entitled to election as President has died, the Vice Presidential candidate entitled to election as Vice President shall be declared elected President. 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 and Vice President elect.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 378 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest the residence and to insure equal educational opportunities for all students wherever located.

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits compelling a student to attend a public school other than the one nearest his residence. 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. 361 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the right to life.

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protections, 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 law permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.

Bill· SS. 1148 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to erect a memorial in honor of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence in Constitution Gardens in the District of Columbia.

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to erect a memorial in Constitution Gardens in the District of Columbia in honor of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Directs the Administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration to prepare the design and plans for such memorial. Limits expenditures for the design and erection of such memorial to $500,000 of the funds available to the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, other than appropriated funds. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to maintain the memorial.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 353 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1977

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. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth 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 fifth year fiscal year.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 354 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to freedom from forced assignment to schools or jobs because of race, creed, or color.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Prohibits assignment of public school teachers or other public employees of the Federal or State governments, and subdivisions thereof, to particular jobs or locations based upon their race, creed, or color.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 352 (95th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, 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 for such offices. 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 of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death 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.

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