SJR501 would rescind HJR 1001, adopted by the Legislature in 2015, which applied to Congress to “call an Article V convention of the states for the sole purpose of proposing a federal balanced budget amendment.”
The Senate failed to pass SJR501 on February 9, 2021, by a vote of 17 to 18. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because efforts to call an Article V or second constitutional convention should be resisted. Rather, states should seek to immediately nullify all unconstitutional federal laws. Article V of the U.S. Constitution was designed to correct structural deficiencies in the federal government, not the failure of elected officials to uphold their oath of office.