Bill Text: MI SJRE | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; other; budget process; require legislature to present all general appropriation bills to the 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole With Substitute S-1 [SJRE Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SJRE-Introduced.html
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION E
February 8, 2011, Introduced by Senators HILDENBRAND, PROOS, HUNE, KOWALL, PAVLOV, JONES, SCHUITMAKER, EMMONS, MOOLENAAR, MEEKHOF, BOOHER, ROBERTSON, MARLEAU, CASPERSON, PAPPAGEORGE, HANSEN and JANSEN and referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing.
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 the governor on or before a certain
date and to reduce compensation of state legislators when certain
state budget bills are not presented 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 the governor on or before a certain date and to reduce
compensation of state legislators when certain state budget bills
are not presented on or before a certain date, is proposed, agreed
to, and submitted to the people of the state:
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 all general appropriation bills for the
succeeding fiscal period to the governor 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.
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.
