Bill Text: MI SJRL | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; other; time period that legislature may meet and when governor may call extraordinary sessions; limit. Amends sec. 13, art. IV & adds sec. 15, to art. V of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-31 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SJRL Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SJRL-Introduced.html
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION L
January 31, 2013, Introduced by Senators ANDERSON, BIEDA, HOPGOOD, 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 13 of article IV and
section 15 of article V, to limit the time that the legislature may
meet, to limit what the legislature may consider at extraordinary
sessions of the legislature, and to provide for a two-thirds vote
of the legislature during those sessions.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to limit the time that the legislature may
meet, to limit what the legislature may consider at extraordinary
sessions of the legislature, and to provide for a two-thirds vote
of the legislature during those sessions, is proposed, agreed to,
and submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 13. The legislature shall meet at the seat of government
on the second Wednesday in January of each year at twelve o'clock
noon. Each regular session shall adjourn without day, on a day
determined by concurrent resolution, at twelve o'clock noon. The
legislature shall not meet in regular session after the November
election in an even numbered year. Any business, bill or joint
resolution pending at the final adjournment of a regular session
held in an odd numbered year shall carry over with the same status
to the next regular session.
ARTICLE V
Sec. 15. The governor may convene the legislature on
extraordinary occasions. If the governor convenes the legislature
under this section, the legislature shall only meet to consider
bills if a resolution is adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the
members elected to and serving in each house. A bill considered
during a session convened under this section shall not become law
without the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to and
serving in each house. The legislature shall not remove any tie-bar
from a bill considered during a session convened under this section
without the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to and
serving in each 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.
