Bill Text: MI SJRM | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; other; power of the legislature to disapprove rules and requirements for budget and appropriation bills submitted by the governor; provide for. Amends sec. 37, art. IV & secs. 18 & 19, art. V & adds sec. 2a to art. V of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-19 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SJRM Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SJRM-Introduced.html

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION M

 

 

September 19, 2017, Introduced by Senators COLBECK, KOWALL, BRANDENBURG, CASPERSON and ROBERTSON and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 37 of article IV and

 

sections 18 and 19 of article V and adding section 2a to article V,

 

to allow the legislature to disapprove certain rules, to provide

 

requirements for appropriation bills, and to require certain

 

disclosures of executive departments.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to allow the legislature to disapprove

 

certain rules, to provide requirements for appropriation bills, and

 

to require certain disclosures of executive departments, is

 

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

 

ARTICLE IV

     Sec. 37. (1) Before January 1, 2021, the legislature may by

 

concurrent resolution adopted by a record roll call vote of a

 

majority of the members elected to and serving in each house

 

suspend or disapprove a rule. A suspension under this subsection

 

shall continue no longer than two years.

 

     (2) On or after January 1, 2021, the legislature may by

 

concurrent resolution adopted by a record roll call vote of the

 

majority of the members elected to and serving in each house

 

suspend or disapprove a rule within two years of the promulgation

 

of that rule. A suspension under this subsection shall continue no

 

longer than two years after the rule is promulgated.

 

     (3) The legislature may by concurrent resolution empower a

 

joint committee of the legislature, acting between sessions, to

 

suspend any rule or regulation promulgated by an administrative

 

agency subsequent to the adjournment of the last preceding regular

 

legislative session. Such A suspension under this subsection shall

 

continue no longer than the end of the next regular legislative

 

session.

 

     (4) A rule disapproved by the legislature under this section

 

is void.

 

ARTICLE V

 

     Sec. 2a. (1) Each department shall maintain and provide to the

 

public a list of core services for which the department is uniquely

 

responsible, the annual expenditures for those core services, and

 

the key performance objectives that pertain to the capacity and

 

quality of those core services.

 

     (2) As used in this section and Section 18 of Article V, "core

 

service" means an activity that provides measurable value to

 

beneficiaries such as citizens, businesses, and units of local

 

government. Core service does not include a work project or capital

 

purchase associated with a one-time expenditure. A core service of

 

a department does not include a service that is not unique to the

 

mission of that department.

 

     Sec. 18. (1) The governor shall submit to the legislature at a

 

time fixed by law, a budget for the ensuing fiscal period setting

 

forth in detail, for all operating funds, the proposed expenditures

 

and estimated revenue of the state, and a budget forecast for the

 

fiscal period immediately following the ensuing fiscal period that

 

reflects performance improvements based on previous expenditures.

 

Proposed expenditures from any fund shall not exceed the estimated

 

revenue thereof. On the same date, the governor shall submit to the

 

legislature general a core service appropriation bills bill for

 

each department and a separate appropriation bill for services

 

other than core services for each department to embody the proposed

 

expenditures and any necessary bill or bills to provide new or

 

additional revenues to meet proposed expenditures.

 

     (2) The amount of any surplus created or deficit incurred in

 

any fund during the last preceding fiscal period shall be entered

 

as an item in the budget and in one of the appropriation bills. The

 

governor may submit amendments to appropriation bills to be offered

 

in either house during consideration of the bill by that house, and

 

shall submit bills to meet deficiencies in current appropriations.

 

     Sec. 19. The governor may disapprove any distinct item or

 

items appropriating moneys money in any appropriation bill. The

 

part or parts approved, including conditions on spending, shall

 

become law, and the item or items disapproved shall be void unless

 

re-passed according to the method prescribed for the passage of

 

other bills over the executive veto.

 

     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.