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Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 75 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years. Prohibits any person from being elected President if such person has filled a vacancy in such office for more than three years. Prohibits any person who held such office from being elected Vice President. Provides that no person may be elected as President, Vice President, or to the Senate more than once. Allows any person who has filled a Senate vacancy for less than three years to be elected to the Senate once more.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 77 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - States that the President and Vice President shall hold office for a term of six years. Prohibits a person: (1) from being elected more than once to each office; (2) from being elected as President if he/she has been President, or acted as President, for more than three years of another person's term; and (3) from being elected as Vice President if he/she has held such office for more than three years of another person's term. Repeals the twenty-second amendment to the Constitution.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 78 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Senators or Representatives from serving more than eighteen years in the Congress.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 3 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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: (1) the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number is at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast; and (2) 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· SJRESS.J.Res. 8 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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: (1) the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number is at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast; and (2) 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· SJRESS.J.Res. 2 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the number of terms of office that a Member of the Senate may serve to two (maximum of 14 years) and a Member of the House of Representatives to seven (maximum of 15 years).
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 9 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 7 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. 392 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the right to life vests in a human being from the moment of fertilization.
Bill· HRH.R. 353 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Federal Constitution Convention Amendment Act - Sets forth procedures for holding constitutional conventions for proposing amendments to the Constitution. Requires that both Houses of Congress agree to a concurrent resolution calling for a convention whenever it determines that at least two-thirds of the States have submitted valid applications for the calling of a constitutional convention upon the same subject. Entitles each State to the same number of delegates at such convention as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress, with one delegate elected from each congressional district and two at large. Authorizes the convention to propose constitutional amendments by a two-thirds vote of the total number of delegates. Provides that an amendment shall become valid when ratified by three-fourths of the States. Permits a State to rescind its ratification.
Bill· HRH.R. 297 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. 114 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Eliminates the jurisdiction of Federal courts established under article III of the Constitution to modify any State court order which is subject to review by the highest court of the State.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 55 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal expenditures from exceeding total revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency by a concurrent resolution which has passed each House of Congress by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its authorized membership.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 66 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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· HJRESH.J.Res. 57 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or threat of war. 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. 53 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal expenditures from exceeding total revenues. 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 each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 58 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the increase of total budget outlays of the United States Government during any fiscal year to a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the gross national product during the previous calendar year. States that if the inflation rate exceeds three percent annually the increase in total outlays shall be reduced by one-fourth the difference between the inflation rate and three percent. Requires the use of any surplus in total revenues received by the Government to reduce the public debt. Allows the limit on total outlays to be changed by a three-quarters vote of both Houses of Congress, or by a two-thirds vote in the case of an emergency declared by the President. Continues Federal aid programs to States and local governments for a period of six years.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 43 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the increase of total budget outlays of the United States Government during any fiscal year to a percentage equal to the percentage increase in the gross national product during the previous calendar year. States that if the inflation rate exceeds three percent annually the increase in total outlays shall be reduced by one-fourth the difference between the inflation rate and three percent. Requires the use of any surplus in total revenues received by the Government to reduce the public debt. Allows the limit on total outlays to be changed: (1) by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress to meet an emergency declared by the President; or (2) by a three-quarters vote on other occasions. Continues Federal aid programs to States and local governments for a period of six years. Prohibits Congress from authorizing any United States agency from requiring that a State or local government engage in additional or expanded activities without compensation equal to the additional costs.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 54 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the enactment of budget authority which would result in total estimated budget outlays in excess of recommended Federal revenues in any fiscal year. Authorizes the suspension of such provision during a congressionally declared war or period of economic necessity. 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. 45 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. 41 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total expenditures of the United States in any fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for such year. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war declared by Congress or by a concurrent resolution passed by a two- thirds vote of both Houses of Congress. States that any unanticipated deficit in any fiscal year shall be considered an expenditure for the succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Congress to provide an appropriate increase in the level of total receipts if the amount of such deficit exceeds two percent of the total expenditures for the succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes the Congress to apportion any deficit over the four following fiscal years, or by a two-thirds vote of both Houses to include such deficit in the debts of the United States.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 31 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 42 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 33 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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 never by more than ten percent. Provides that during the third 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 third fiscal year.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 25 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal expenditures from exceeding total revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national emergency by a concurrent resolution which has passed each House of Congress by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its authorized membership. Limits the duration of such suspension to the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which such resolution is adopted.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 19 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits total Federal expenditures from exceeding net revenue. Authorizes suspension of such prohibition in time of war or national economic emergency upon the concurrence of two-thirds of the Members of each House of Congress. Requires the Congress, with respect to the suspension of such prohibition in the case of a national economic emergency, to take into consideration the extent and rate of industrial activity, unemployment, and inflation, and other appropriate factors.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 11 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from enacting legislation which will cause Federal taxation to exceed 15 percent of the gross national product. Prohibits the making of appropriations in excess of the total estimated revenues of the United States in any fiscal year except in time of war or national emergency.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 9 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Prohibits Congress, whenever deficits exceed receipts for any two-year period, from passing any bill or other measure appropriating any moneys out of the general fund of the Treasury until such time as provisions of law have come into effect which will provide, within the following 12 months, additional revenue in an amount not less than the amount by which such expenditures exceed such receipts. Suspends such requirements during a war or other national emergency upon the recommendation of the President and the approval of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 4 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits expenditures in any fiscal year, except for expenditures for the repayment of debt principal, from exceeding revenues collected in that year for the average of expenditures as a percentage of the gross national product for the previous three fiscal years. Permits borrowing for capital expenditures for a period of time proportionate to their probable usefulness. Directs Congress to provide by law for the repayment of the existing national debt. Allows suspension of this amendment for any fiscal year whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 14 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 3 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to compute annually 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 suspension of such limitations 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. 10 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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 never 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 fiscal year.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 2 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 59 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 47 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 40 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from enacting legislation which will cause Federal taxation to exceed 15 percent of the gross national product. Prohibits the making of appropriations in excess of the total estimated revenues of the United States in any fiscal year except in time of war or national emergency.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 36 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Congress from enacting legislation which will cause Federal taxation to exceed 15 percent of the gross national product. Prohibits the making of appropriations in excess of the total estimated revenues of the United States in any fiscal year except in time of war or national emergency.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 26 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the total appropriations of Congress from exceeding 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. 56 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a Federal court from requiring that a person be assigned to, or excluded from, a school on the basis of race, religion, or national origin.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 51 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits: (1) Representatives from serving more than ten years during any 12-year period; (2) Senators from serving more than 12 years during any 14 year period; and (3) judges of the Supreme Court or an inferior court from serving more than ten years during any 12-year period.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 69 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons to participate in voluntary prayer in public buildings.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 24 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall abridge the right of persons to participate in nondenominational prayer in public buildings.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 30 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall: (1) be deemed to prohibit voluntary participation in prayer in public buildings or making reference to a Supreme Being in public activities or documents; or (2) constitute an establishment of religion.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 67 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for enactment and repeal of laws by popular vote, except for the constitutional powers of Congress to declare war and execute laws. Excludes the right to propose constitutional amendments. Requires an issue to be placed on the ballot in the next congressional election if a petition proposing enactment or repeal of a law is signed by a number of registered voters equal to three percent of the ballots cast in the last presidential election in each of one-quarter of the States. Requires for passage that such proposal receive a majority of electoral votes. Declares that no law passed by popular vote may be amended or repealed during the two-year period after enactment except by a two-thirds vote of each House of Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 64 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress to review each rule and regulation before it becomes effective to carry out any law. Authorizes the Congress to approve, modify, or disapprove any such rule or regulation.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 60 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the tenure of Federal judges (including Supreme Court justices) to a ten-year term unless the President nominates and the Senate consents to a continuance.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 65 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for staggered four-year terms for Members of the House of Representatives. Prohibits persons from being elected to the House more than three times and to the Senate more than twice.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 70 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. 52 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
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. 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. 62 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Defines "person" to include the unborn for the purpose of the right to life guarantee. Makes such amendment inapplicable to laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
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