Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force

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]

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

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-eight have made the request.[2] Thirty-four are needed. 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. Colorado[6]
  6. Florida[5]
  7. Georgia[5]
  8. Indiana[6]
  9. Iowa[6]
  10. Kansas[6]
  11. Louisiana[6]
  12. Michigan[6]
  13. Mississippi[6]
  14. Missouri[8]
  15. Nebraska[6]
  16. New Hampshire[6]
  17. North Carolina
  18. North Dakota[6]
  19. Ohio[6]
  20. Oklahoma[6]
  21. Pennsylvania[6]
  22. South Dakota[6]
  23. Tennessee[5]
  24. Texas[6]
  25. Utah[6]
  26. West Virginia[6]
  27. Wisconsin[9]
  28. Wyoming

States rejecting a convention
  1. Delaware
  2. Maryland[10]
  3. Nevada[10]
  4. New Mexico

References
  1. "Balanced Budget Amendment Inc. Form 990 2015". ProPublica. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  2. "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. Sisk, Chas (February 4, 2016). "Rewrite The Constitution? Several States Are Trying To". NPR. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  6. 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. "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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