Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
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 LLS NO. R12-0923.01 John Kilgour x4338           SJR12-047
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Mitchell, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None), 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 12-047 
       Concerning an application to the Congress of the United
            States to call a convention for proposing amendments
            to the Constitution of the United States to provide
            that an increase in the federal debt requires approval
            from a majority of the legislatures of the separate
            states.
       
       
            WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United States
       provides authority for a Convention to be called by the Congress of the
       United States for the purpose of proposing amendments to the
       Constitution upon application of two-thirds of the legislatures of the
       several states (amendments convention); and
       
            WHEREAS, The Colorado General Assembly favors the proposal
       and ratification of an amendment to said Constitution, which shall
       provide that an increase in the federal debt requires approval from a
       majority of the legislatures of the separate states; now, therefore,
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
       
            (1)  That, as provided for in Article V of the Constitution of the
       United States, the Colorado General Assembly herewith respectfully
       applies for an amendments convention to be called for the purpose of
       proposing an amendment, which shall provide that an increase in the
       federal debt requires approval from a majority of the legislatures of the
       separate states.
       
            (2)  That the amendments convention contemplated by this
       application shall be entirely focused upon and exclusively limited to the
       subject matter of proposing for ratification an amendment to the
       Constitution of the United States providing that an increase in the federal
       debt requires approval from a majority of the legislatures of the separate
       states.
       
            (3)  This application constitutes a continuing application in
       accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until
       at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the several states have made
       application for an equivalently limited amendments convention.
       
            Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent
       to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
       United States House of Representatives, to each member of Colorado's
       congressional delegation, and to the presiding officers of each house of
       the several state legislatures, requesting their cooperation in applying for
       the amendments convention limited to the subject matter contemplated by
       this Joint Resolution.