00                CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 38(STA)                                                               
01 Requesting the United States Congress to call an Article V amendments convention to                                     
02 propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring approval of a                                   
03 majority of state legislatures to increase the federal debt.                                                            
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05       WHEREAS Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides authority for a                             
06 convention to be called by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of proposing                               
07 amendments to the Constitution of the United States upon application of two-thirds of the                               
08 legislatures of the several states--an amendments convention; and                                                       
09       WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature supports the proposal and ratification of an                               
10 amendment to the Constitution of the United States that provides that an increase in the                                
11 federal debt requires approval from a majority of the legislatures of the separate states;                              
12       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully applies for an                                    
13 amendments convention to the Constitution of the United States, called for the purpose of                               
14 proposing an amendment that provides that an increase in the federal debt requires approval                             
15 from a majority of the legislatures of the separate states; and be it                                                   

01       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that the                                            
02 amendments convention requested by this application be entirely focused on and exclusively                              
03 limited to the subject matter of proposing for ratification an amendment to the Constitution of                         
04 the United States providing that an increase in the federal debt requires approval from a                               
05 majority of the legislatures of the separate states; and be it                                                          
06       FURTHER RESOLVED that this application constitutes a continuing application in                                  
07 accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until at least two-thirds of                         
08 the legislatures of the several states have made application for an equivalently limited                                
09 amendments convention.                                                                                                  
10       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of                             
11 the United States; the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and                          
12 President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, President pro tempore of the                              
13 U.S. Senate; the Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; the                              
14 Honorable Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Karen L. Haas, Clerk                              
15 of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Lisa Murkowski and the Honorable                                    
16 Mark Begich, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of                                
17 the Alaska delegation in Congress; and the presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the                        
18 other 49 states.