S-3170

   Amend Senate Joint Resolution 8 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the resolving clause and inserting: 
   <That the Congress of the United States is hereby petitioned to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for submission to the states for ratification, to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government and limit the federal government’s power and jurisdiction; and

   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States, the General Assembly, as the legislature of the state of Iowa, joins in the applications of the states of Georgia (SR 736, 2014), Florida (SM 476, 2014), Alaska (HJR 22, 2014), Alabama (HJR 112, 2015), Tennessee (SJR 67, 2016), Indiana (SJR 14, 2016), Oklahoma (SJR 4, 2016), and Louisiana (SCR 52, 2016), for a convention for the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States limited to the purposes stated therein, provided, however, that the delegates from Iowa to said convention are expressly limited to consideration and support of amendments that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, and amendments that limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and no amendments on any other topic; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That it is the express intention of the General Assembly that this application shall be aggregated with the prior and subsequent applications of other states limited to the purposes identified in this application; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have made applications for a similar convention under Article V, or the General Assembly resolves to withdraw this application; and
   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State shall transmit certified copies of this resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the presiding officer of each house of the legislature of each of the several states, and to each member of Iowa’s congressional delegation.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 23 and inserting: 

<A Joint Resolution calling for an Article V convention in order to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints, and limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and requesting Congress to similarly propose such amendments.

   WHEREAS, the founders of the Constitution of the United States empowered state legislators to be guardians of liberty against future abuses of power by the federal government; and
   WHEREAS, the federal government has created a crushing national debt through improper and imprudent spending; and
   WHEREAS, the federal government has invaded the legitimate roles of the states through the manipulative process of federal mandates, most of which are unfunded to a great extent; and
   WHEREAS, the federal government has ceased to live under a proper interpretation of the Constitution of the United States; and
   WHEREAS, it is the solemn duty of the states to protect the liberty of our people, particularly for the generations to come, by proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States through a convention of the states under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the purpose of restraining these and related abuses of power; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:>

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JASON SCHULTZ