Bill Text: MS HC41 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Joint Rules; amend to require 72-hour waiting period before voting on appropriation or revenue bill.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-28 - Died In Committee [HC41 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HC41-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Representatives Turner, Ellington
House Concurrent Resolution 41
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AMENDING RULE 40, WHICH IS THE TIMETABLE FOR PROCESSING LEGISLATION, OF THE JOINT RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE FOR THE 2008-2012 TERM OF THE MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE TO REQUIRE A 72-HOUR WAITING PERIOD BEFORE CERTAIN VOTES ON PASSAGE OF AN APPROPRIATION OR REVENUE BILL MAY BE TAKEN.
WHEREAS, the Mississippi State Legislature finds that public participation in the legislative process improves the quality of proposed legislation by allowing the opportunity for its detailed review by interested parties; and
WHEREAS, the opportunity for a detailed review by the public before votes on proposed legislation increases public trust in government and enhances respect for the legislative process by ensuring that the Legislature conducts its business with the openness, order and dignity befitting the State of Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this resolution to prohibit a vote on passage of an appropriation or revenue bill until seventy-two (72) hours have elapsed from the time that the bill is reported from committee, and until seventy-two (72) hours have elapsed from the time that a conference report on the bill has been filed.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That Rule 40 of the 2008-2012 Joint Rules of the House and Senate is amended as follows:
40. TIMETABLE FOR PROCESSING LEGISLATION
90-day 125-day
Session Session
9th day 45th day Deadline for making requests for
general bills and constitutional
amendments to be drafted.***
14th day 49th day Deadline for introduction of general
bills and constitutional amendments.*
29th day 64th day Deadline for committees to report
general bills and constitutional
amendments originating in own house.*+
38th day 73rd day Deadline for original floor action
on general bills and constitutional
amendments originating in own
house.*
39th day 74th day Deadline for reconsideration and
passage of general bills and
constitutional amendments originating
in own house.*
42nd day 77th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider general bills and
constitutional amendments originating
in own house.*
49th day 83rd day Deadline for committees to report
appropriation and revenue bills
originating in own house.
51st day 86th day Deadline for original floor action
on appropriation and revenue bills
originating in own house.
52nd day 87th day Deadline for reconsideration and
passage of appropriation and
revenue bills originating in own
house.
53rd day 88th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider appropriation and
revenue bills originating in own
house.
57th day 92nd day Deadline for committees to report
general bills and constitutional
amendments originating in other house.*+
65th day 100th day Deadline for original floor action
on general bills and constitutional
amendments originating in other
house.*
66th day 101st day Deadline for reconsideration and
passage of general bills and
constitutional amendments originating
in other house.*
67th day 102nd day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider general bills and
constitutional amendments originating in other house.*
68th day 103rd day Deadline for committees to report
appropriation and revenue bills
originating in other house.
71st day 106th day Deadline for original floor action
on appropriation and revenue bills
originating in other house.
72nd day 107th day Deadline for reconsideration and
passage of appropriation and
revenue bills originating in other
house.
73rd day 108th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider appropriation and
revenue bills originating in other
house.
74th day 109th day Deadline to concur or not concur in
amendments from other house to
appropriation and revenue bills, and
for introduction of local and private
bills that are revenue bills.
77th day 112th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider concurrence or
nonconcurrence in appropriation and
revenue bills.
78th day 113th day Deadline for conference reports on
appropriation and revenue bills to
be filed.**+
80th day 115th day Deadline to concur or not concur
in amendments from other house to
general bills and constitutional
amendments.
81st day 116th day Deadline for final adoption of
conference reports on appropriation
and revenue bills **+, and for
introduction of local and private
bills that are not revenue bills.
84th day 119th day * * * Deadline for conference
reports on general bills and
constitutional amendments to be
filed.**+
85th day 120th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider conference reports on
appropriation and revenue bills.
86th day 121st day Deadline for first consideration
of conference reports on general
bills and constitutional amendments.
87th day 122nd day Deadline for filing conference
reports on general bills and
constitutional amendments that had
been recommitted for further
conference.+
88th day 123rd day Deadline for adoption of
conference reports on general bills
and constitutional amendments
after recommittal.
89th day 124th day Deadline to dispose of motions to
reconsider conference reports on
general bills and constitutional
amendments, and sine die.
*Appropriation, revenue, and local and private bills, and bills to restore suffrage are excluded from these deadlines. For purposes of the deadlines herein set forth, the term "revenue bills" shall include only those bills whose primary purpose is to increase or decrease taxes or to authorize the issuance of bonds or the borrowing of money. Bills which are primarily for regulatory purposes which have revenue provisions included shall not be considered as revenue bills for deadline purposes. The deletion from a bill of the features which made it a revenue bill shall render the bill a general bill for deadline purposes.
**Conference reports on all bills must be filed with the Secretary/Clerk no later than the time of adjournment on the day prior to being called up and considered. Appropriation bills which actually appropriate money and are recommitted for further conference are excluded from the requirement that the subsequent conference report be filed and lay on table one (1) day before being considered; however, original action must be taken on all appropriation conference reports by 2:00 p.m. on the 81st/116th day and subsequent reports must be filed no later than 6:00 p.m.
***Requests for general bills and constitutional amendments to be drafted must be made no later than 8:00 p.m. on the 9th/45th day. The Rules Committee of the House or Senate, as the case may be, may authorize any member of its respective house to make requests, for one or more general bills or constitutional amendments to be drafted, after the expiration of the deadline for making such drafting requests but before the deadline for introduction of bills and constitutional amendments, upon a determination by the Rules Committee that such drafting requests are in response to conditions of an emergency nature arising subsequent to the deadline for making requests for general bills and constitutional amendments to be drafted.
+Committee reports and conference reports that are subject to being filed on these deadlines must be filed with the Secretary/Clerk no later than 8:00 p.m.
Whenever the word "day" appears in this rule, it shall mean calendar day.
The above schedule shall not be deviated from except by the passage of a concurrent resolution adopted by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the membership of the House and Senate present and voting. If a concurrent resolution permitting a deviation from this timetable for the purpose of voting on an appropriation or revenue bill before seventy-two (72) hours have elapsed from the time that the bill is reported from committee, or from the time that a conference report on the bill has been filed, as the case may be, is duly adopted by the requisite vote requirement, then the following language shall be added to the effective date of the bill: "The Mississippi State Legislature has waived the people's right to have seventy-two (72) hours within which to review this bill before a legislative vote is taken on the bill."
