Balanced Budget Amendment Inc.
FormationAugust 2010; 13 years ago (2010-08)
Type501(c)(4)
27-1351108[1]
PurposeAdvocating for a balanced-budget amendment
Location
  • Palm City, Florida
Websitebba4usa.org

The Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force is a conservative Florida-based lobbying organization supporting a balanced-budget amendment to the United States Constitution. [2][3]

The group advocates an Article V convention to include such an amendment.[4] An Article V convention is convened at the request of two-thirds of the states. Twenty-seven have made the request.[2] Thirty-four are needed and then thirty-eight states would be needed for ratification of any proposed amendments.[5]

States requesting a convention

Main article: List of state applications for an Article V Convention
  1. Alabama[6]
  2. Alaska[6]
  3. Arizona[7]
  4. Arkansas[6]
  5. Florida[5]
  6. Georgia[5]
  7. Indiana[6]
  8. Iowa[6]
  9. Kansas[6]
  10. Louisiana[6]
  11. Michigan[6]
  12. Mississippi[6]
  13. Missouri[8]
  14. Nebraska[6]
  15. New Hampshire[6]
  16. North Carolina
  17. North Dakota[6]
  18. Ohio[6]
  19. Oklahoma[6]
  20. Pennsylvania[6]
  21. South Dakota[6]
  22. Tennessee[5]
  23. Texas[6]
  24. Utah[6]
  25. West Virginia[6]
  26. Wisconsin[9]
  27. Wyoming

States rejecting a convention

  1. Colorado
  2. Delaware
  3. Maryland[10]
  4. Nevada[10]
  5. New Mexico

References

  1. ^ "Balanced Budget Amendment Inc. Form 990 2015". ProPublica. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b "America might see a new constitutional convention in a few years". The Economist. September 30, 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. ^ Wines, Michael (August 22, 2016). "Inside the Conservative Push for States to Amend the Constitution". New York Times. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. ^ Celock, John (March 28, 2013). "Balanced Budget Advocates Seek Article V Constitutional Convention". Huffington Post. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d Sisk, Chas (February 4, 2016). "Rewrite The Constitution? Several States Are Trying To". NPR. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Leachman, Michael (January 18, 2017). "States Likely Could Not Control Constitutional Convention on Balanced Budget Amendment or Other Issues". Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  7. ^ Rau, Alia Beard (September 15, 2017). "Phoenix constitutional convention gives 'rebirth to a new nation,' planners say". Arizona Republic. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  8. ^ McKelway, Doug (May 15, 2017). "Push for Convention of the States to rein in government gains steam". Fox News Politics. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  9. ^ Richmond, Todd (November 7, 2017). "Wisconsin Senate OKs Constitutional Convention Call". US News. AP. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  10. ^ a b "We're surprisingly close to our first constitutional convention since 1787. Bad idea". Washington Post. May 6, 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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