Bill Text: MI HJRJ | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; other; budget process; require legislature to present budgets to governor by July 1 and require forfeiture of legislators' salaries for failure to present those bills by that date. Amends sec. 31, art. IV & adds sec. 55 to art. IV of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-16 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 02/16/2011 [HJRJ Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HJRJ-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION J
February 15, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Townsend, Ananich, Liss, Geiss, Hobbs, Switalski, Bauer, Tlaib, Hovey-Wright, Darany, Barnett, Rutledge, Olumba, Dillon, Brunner, Cavanagh, Huuki, Talabi and Brown and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 31 of article IV and by
adding section 55 to article IV, to provide that certain state
budget bills be presented to and signed by the governor on or
before a certain date and to reduce compensation of state
legislators, the governor, and the lieutenant governor when certain
state budget bills are not presented to and signed by the governor
on or before a certain date.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to provide that certain state budget bills be
presented to and signed by the governor on or before a certain date
and to reduce compensation of state legislators, the governor, and
the lieutenant governor when certain state budget bills are not
presented to and signed by the governor on or before a certain
date, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the
state:
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 31. The general appropriation bills for the succeeding
fiscal period covering items set forth in the budget shall be
passed or rejected in either house of the legislature before that
house passes any appropriation bill for items not in the budget
except bills supplementing appropriations for the current fiscal
year's operation. Any bill requiring an appropriation to carry out
its purpose shall be considered an appropriation bill. One of the
general appropriation bills as passed by the legislature shall
contain an itemized statement of estimated revenue by major source
in each operating fund for the ensuing fiscal period, the total of
which shall not be less than the total of all appropriations made
from each fund in the general appropriation bills as passed. The
legislature shall present to the governor and the governor shall
sign all general appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal
period on or before July 1 of each year.
Sec. 55. If the legislature has not presented all general
appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal period to the
governor by the date set forth in section 31 of this article, each
legislator shall forfeit his or her salary for each day after that
date that all the general appropriation bills have not been
presented. If the governor has not signed all general appropriation
bills for the succeeding fiscal period by the date set forth in
section 31 of this article, the governor and lieutenant governor
shall forfeit their salaries for each day after that date that all
the general appropriation bills have not been signed.
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.
