Bill Text: MS SR1 | 2013 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Senate Rules; amend to delete requirement that bills or resolutions shall be on legal-sized paper.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-01-09 - Adopted [SR1 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-SR1-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Senator(s) Brown
Senate Resolution 1
(As Adopted by Senate)
A RESOLUTION TO AMEND SENATE RULE NO. 73 TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS SHALL BE ON LEGAL-SIZED PAPER.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That Senate Rule No. 73 is amended to read as follows:
73. All bills and
resolutions must be typewritten, double spaced on * * * white paper. Titles must be
typewritten single spaced and in capital letters. Bills or resolutions must be
introduced in original form (not carbon or photocopied) and shall be free from
interlineations, corrections and strikeouts, whether with ink, pencil or
typewriter. The enacting clause, typed immediately preceding Section 1 of a
bill, shall contain the following words in capital letters: "BE IT ENACTED
BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI." No additional enacting
words shall be used. The Secretary may decline to accept for introduction a
bill or resolution not conforming hereto.
