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House Journal: Page 1913: Wednesday, April 22, 1998

7.  The Governor shall submit and the General Assembly shall
pass a budget which does not exceed the state general fund
expenditure limitation.

8.  The Governor shall not submit and the General Assembly shall
not pass a budget which in order to balance assumes reversion of
any part of the total of the appropriations included in the
budget.

9.  The state shall use consistent standards, in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, for all state
budgeting and accounting purposes.

10.  The General Assembly shall enact laws to implement this
section.

Sec. 2.  The following amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Iowa is proposed:

The Constitution of the State of Iowa is amended by adding the
following new sections to new Article XIII:

ARTICLE XIII.
THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY FOR TAX LAW CHANGES.

THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY TO INCREASE TAXES. Section 1.  A bill
containing provisions enacting, amending, or repealing the state
income tax or enacting, amending, or repealing the state sales
and use taxes, in which the aggregate fiscal impact of those
provisions relating to those taxes results in a net increase in
state tax revenues, as determined by the General Assembly, shall
require the affirmative votes of at least three-fifths of the
whole membership of each house of the General Assembly for
passage.  This section does not apply to income tax or sales and
use taxes imposed at the option of a local government.

THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY TO ENACT NEW STATE TAX. Sec. 2. A bill
that establishes a new state tax to be imposed by the state
shall require the affirmative votes of at least three-fifths of
the whole membership of each house of the General Assembly for
passage.

ENFORCEMENT OF THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY REQUIREMENT. Sec. 3. A
lawsuit challenging the proper enactment of a bill pursuant to
section 1 or 2 shall be filed no later than one year following
the enactment.  Failure to file such a lawsuit within the
one-year time 

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