Bill Text: MI HJRJ | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature: legislators; salary for legislators; reduce after sine die. Amends sec. 12, art. IV of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-31 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 11/14/2023 [HJRJ Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HJRJ-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION J
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution of 1963, by amending section 12 of article IV, to reduce the salary of members of the legislature during certain adjournments.
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 the salary of members of the legislature during certain adjournments, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:
article IV
Sec. 12. (1) The state officers compensation commission is created which subject to this section shall determine the salaries and expense allowances of the members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court. The commission shall consist of 7 members appointed by the governor whose qualifications may be determined by law. Subject to the legislature's ability to amend the commission's determinations as provided in this section, the commission shall determine the salaries and expense allowances of the members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court which determinations shall be the salaries and expense allowances only if the legislature by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house of the legislature approve them. The senate and house of representatives shall alternate on which house of the legislature shall originate the concurrent resolution, with the senate originating the first concurrent resolution.
(2) The concurrent resolution described in subsection (1) may amend the salary and expense determinations of the state officers compensation commission to reduce the salary and expense determinations by the same proportion for members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court. The legislature shall not amend the salary and expense determinations to reduce them to below the salary and expense level that members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court receive on the date the salary and expense determinations are made. If the salary and expense determinations are approved or amended as provided in this section, the salary and expense determinations shall become effective for the legislative session immediately following the next general election. The commission shall meet each 2 years for no more than 15 session days.
(3) Notwithstanding any salary determination under this section to the contrary, in any year that the legislature adjourns a regular session without day before December 1, the salary of each member of that legislature must be reduced by 25 percent for the time between that adjournment and the first day of the next regular session.
(4) The legislature shall implement this section by law.
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.
