Bill Text: MI SJRG | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; legislative agencies; fiscal impact statement; prohibit bill from being considered until house and senate fiscal agencies have prepared. Amends sec. 26, art. IV of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-22 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SJRG Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SJRG-Introduced.html
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION G
February 22, 2011, Introduced by Senators BIEDA, WHITMER, HUNTER, GLEASON, JOHNSON and GREGORY 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 fiscal impact note for all bills and to require spending
cuts or increased revenues for any bill that will increase state
spending or have a negative impact on state revenues.
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 fiscal impact note for all bills
and to require spending cuts or increased revenues for any bill
that will increase state spending or have a negative impact on
state revenues, 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. On the final passage of bills, the votes and names of
the members voting thereon shall be entered in the journal. A bill
shall not be passed by either house of the legislature before the
members of that house have been provided with a fiscal impact note
produced by a nonpartisan legislative fiscal agency detailing the
fiscal impact of the bill for the next five years upon this state,
other governmental entities in this state, businesses in this
state, and citizens of this state. If a bill will increase state
spending or have a negative impact on any revenues to this state,
the bill shall not become law unless another bill is enacted to
reduce state spending or increase state revenues by that same
amount.
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.
