Bill Text: MI SJRD | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; other; budget process; require legislature to present all general appropriation bills to the governor 90 days before the start of a fiscal period and require forfeiture of certain legislators' salaries for failure to present those bills by that date. Amends sec. 31, art. IV & adds sec. 55 to art. IV of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-16 - Referred To Committee On Reforms, Restructuring And Reinventing [SJRD Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SJRD-Introduced.html

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION D

 

 

January 16, 2013, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing.

 

 

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 31 of article IV and by

 

adding section 55 to article IV, to provide that certain state

 

budget bills be presented to the governor on or before a certain

 

date and to reduce compensation of certain state legislators when

 

certain state budget bills are not presented on or before a certain

 

date.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to provide that certain state budget bills be

 

presented to the governor on or before a certain date and to reduce

 

compensation of certain state legislators when certain state budget

 

bills are not presented on or before a certain date, is proposed,

 

agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 31. The general appropriation bills for the succeeding

 

fiscal period covering items set forth in the budget shall be

 

passed or rejected in either house of the legislature before that

 

house passes any appropriation bill for items not in the budget

 

except bills supplementing appropriations for the current fiscal

 

year's operation. Any bill requiring an appropriation to carry out

 

its purpose shall be considered an appropriation bill. One of the

 

general appropriation bills as passed by the legislature shall

 

contain an itemized statement of estimated revenue by major source

 

in each operating fund for the ensuing fiscal period, the total of

 

which shall not be less than the total of all appropriations made

 

from each fund in the general appropriation bills as passed. The

 

legislature shall present all general appropriation bills for the

 

succeeding fiscal period to the governor at least 90 days before

 

the start of that fiscal period.

 

     Sec. 55. If the legislature has not presented all general

 

appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal period to the

 

governor by the date set forth in section 31 of this article, the

 

speaker of the house of representatives, the majority leader of the

 

senate, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader of

 

the house of representatives, the majority floor leader of the

 

house of representatives, the majority floor leader of the senate,

 

the minority floor leader of the house of representatives, the

 

minority floor leader of the senate, the president pro tempore of

 

the senate, and the speaker pro tempore of the house of

 

representatives shall each forfeit his or her salary for each day

 

after that date that all the general appropriation bills have not

 

been presented.

 

     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.