South Carolina S 245: School resource officers

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2025-2026 Bill 245 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 16, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 245

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

to make application by the state of south carolina 
under article v of the united states constitution for a convention of the 
states to be called, restricted to proposing an amendment to the united states 
constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government through a 
balanced budget amendment.

Whereas, the annual 
federal budget is not in balance, and the federal public debt is now more than 
thirty-one trillion dollars; and

Whereas, continued 
deficit spending demonstrates an unwillingness or inability of both the federal 
executive and legislative branches to spend no more than available revenues; 
and

Whereas, fiscal 
irresponsibility at the federal level is lowering our standard of living, 
destroying jobs, and endangering economic opportunity now and for the next 
generation. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of 
Representatives concurring:

That the General Assembly of the State of South 
Carolina hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the 
Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a convention of the 
states limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States requiring that, in the absence of a national emergency, the total of all 
federal appropriations made by Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the 
total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any 
related and appropriate fiscal restraints.

Be it further resolved that the General Assembly of 
the State of South Carolina adopts this Concurrent Resolution expressly subject 
to the following reservations, understandings, and declarations:

(1) an application to the Congress of the United 
States to call an amendment convention of the states pursuant to Article V of 
the United States Constitution confers no power to Congress other than the 
power to call such a convention. The power of Congress to exercise this 
ministerial duty consists solely of the authority to name a reasonable time and 
place for the initial meeting of a convention; and

(2) Congress shall perform its ministerial duty of 
calling an amendment convention of the states only upon the receipt of 
applications for an amendment convention for the substantially same purpose as 
this application from two thirds of the legislatures of the several states;

(3) Congress does not have the power or authority to 
determine any rules for the governing of an amendment convention of the states 
called pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution. Congress does 
not have the power to set the number of delegates to be sent by any state to 
such a convention, nor does it have the power to name delegates to such a 
convention. The power to name delegates remains exclusively within the 
authority of the legislatures of the several states;

(4) by definition, an amendment convention of the 
states means that states shall vote on the basis of one state, one vote;

(5) a convention of the states convened pursuant to 
this application must be limited to consideration of the topics specified in 
this joint resolution and no other. This application is made with the express 
understanding that an amendment that in any way seeks to amend, modify, or 
repeal any provision of the Bill of Rights, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and 
fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution shall not be authorized 
for consideration at any stage. This application shall be void ab initio if 
ever used at any stage to consider any change to any provision of the Bill of 
Rights;

(6) pursuant to Article V of the United States 
Constitution, Congress may determine whether proposed amendments shall be 
ratified by the legislatures of the several states or by special state 
ratification conventions. The South Carolina General Assembly recommends that 
Congress select ratification by the legislatures of the several states; and

Be it further resolved that copies of this 
application must be transmitted to the President of the United States, the 
Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the United 
States House of Representatives, and the members of the United States Senate 
and the United States House of Representatives from this State.

Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution 
must also be transmitted to the presiding officers of each of the legislative 
houses in the several states, requesting their cooperation in this endeavor.

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 legislature