Bill Text: MI HJRF | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; legislators; part-time legislature; reduction of legislator's salaries and reduced compensation for absences from legislative session; provide for. Amends secs. 12 & 13, art. IV & adds sec. 55 to art. IV of the state constitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-06 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 02/06/2013 [HJRF Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HJRF-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION F

 

February 5, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Somerville and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending sections 12 and 13 of article IV,

 

and by adding section 55 to article IV, to limit the legislative

 

session, to reduce salaries of members of the legislature, and to

 

reduce compensation of state legislators who have absences from

 

legislative session.

 

     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 legislative session, to reduce

 

salaries of members of the legislature, and to reduce compensation

 

of state legislators who have absences from legislative session, is

 

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

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 12. The state officers compensation commission is created

 

which subject to this section shall determine the salaries and

 

expense allowances of the members of the legislature, the governor,

 

the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the secretary of

 

state, and the justices of the supreme court. The commission shall

 

consist of 7 members appointed by the governor whose qualifications

 

may be determined by law. Subject to the legislature's ability to

 

amend the commission's determinations as provided in this section,

 

the commission shall determine the salaries and expense allowances

 

of the members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant

 

governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the

 

justices of the supreme court which determinations shall be the

 

salaries and expense allowances only if the legislature by

 

concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected

 

to and serving in each house of the legislature approve them. The

 

senate and house of representatives shall alternate on which house

 

of the legislature shall originate the concurrent resolution, with

 

the senate originating the first concurrent resolution.

 

     The concurrent resolution may amend the salary and expense

 

determinations of the state officers compensation commission to

 

reduce the salary and expense determinations by the same proportion

 

for members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant

 

governor, the attorney general, the secretary of state, and the

 

justices of the supreme court. The legislature shall not amend the

 

salary and expense determinations to reduce them to below the

 

salary and expense level that members of the legislature, the

 

governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the

 

secretary of state, and the justices of the supreme court receive

 

on the date the salary and expense determinations are made. If the

 

salary and expense determinations are approved or amended as

 

provided in this section, the salary and expense determinations

 

shall become effective for the legislative session immediately

 

following the next general election. The commission shall meet each

 

2 years for no more than 15 session days. The legislature shall

 

implement this section by law.

 

     Sec. 13. Except when the legislature is called to convene on

 

extraordinary occasions, the legislature shall only meet as

 

provided in this section. 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. 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.

 

In 2015 and every year after 2015, the legislature shall meet for

 

not more than 72 days.

 

     Sec. 55. Beginning in 2015, the base salary of a member of the

 

legislature is $52,000.00. In addition to a member of the

 

legislature's base salary, a member of the legislature shall be

 

paid $170.00 per session day. If a special session of the

 

legislature is called, a member of the legislature shall be paid

 

for the additional days at the rate specified in this section. A

 

member of the legislature who does not attend session on any day

 

that the legislative body is in session shall not receive

 

compensation for that day.

 

     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.