Bill Text: MI HJRD | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; legislators; reduction of pay for legislators who miss session without a valid excuse; provide for. Amends the state constitution by adding sec. 55 to art. IV.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-27 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 01/23/2009 [HJRD Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HJRD-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION D

 

January 22, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Knollenberg, Moss, McMillin and Rogers and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by adding section 55 to article IV, to reduce

 

compensation of state legislators who have absences from

 

legislative session.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to reduce compensation of state legislators

 

who have absences from legislative session, is proposed, agreed to,

 

and submitted to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 55. Any day the legislative body is in session and a

 

legislator does not attend session, that legislator shall have his

 

or her salary reduced on a pro rata basis. Each house of the

 

legislature may provide by rule that the portion of the salary

 

reduced is allocated to a nonprofit organization chosen by that

 

house.

 

     Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be

 

submitted to the people of the state at the next general election

 

in the manner provided by law.