Bill Text: MI HJRE | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature: rules; passage of bills introduced during session held after November election in an even-numbered year; require a 2/3 vote of both houses. Amends sec. 26, art. IV of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-08-26 - Joint Resolution Electronically Reproduced 08/26/2019 [HJRE Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HJRE-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION E

 

 

February 26, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Yaroch, Elder, Pagan, Liberati, Kuppa, Hertel, Allor, Bellino, Inman, Chirkun, Ellison, Wittenberg, Sabo, Howell, Rabhi and Steven Johnson and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 26 of article IV, to

 

require a two-thirds vote on any bill introduced during a

 

legislative session held after the November election in an even-

 

numbered year.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to require a two-thirds vote on any bill

 

introduced during a legislative session held after the November

 

election in an even-numbered year, is proposed, agreed to, and

 

submitted to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 26. No bill shall be passed or become a law at any

regular session of the legislature until it has been printed or

 

reproduced and in the possession of each house for at least five

 

days. Every bill shall be read three times in each house before the

 

final passage thereof. No bill shall become a law without the

 

concurrence of a majority of the members elected to and serving in

 

each house. A bill introduced during a session held after the

 

November election in an even-numbered year shall not become law

 

without the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to and

 

serving in each house. On the final passage of bills, the votes and

 

names of the members voting thereon shall be entered in the

 

journal.

 

     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.