Bill Text: MS SC533 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Joint Rules; amend to require a fiscal note on any bill increasing or decreasing the revenue of the state unless 2/3 vote to dispense.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2014-04-02 - Died In Committee [SC533 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-SC533-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Senator(s) Blount, Clarke, Bryan, Brown
Senate Concurrent Resolution 533
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO AMEND JOINT RULE 20 TO REQUIRE A FISCAL NOTE ON ANY BILL INCREASING OR DECREASING THE REVENUE OF THE STATE UPON THE REQUEST OF ANY MEMBER AND TO PROVIDE THAT CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL CANNOT PROCEED WITHOUT SUCH FISCAL NOTE UNLESS 2/3 OF THAT HOUSE VOTE TO DISPENSE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, That Joint Rule No. 20 is amended to read as follows:
20. Every bill and concurrent resolution,
the purpose or effect of which is to * * * increase or decrease the revenue of the state,
either directly or indirectly, shall have attached to it at the time of its
being reported by any committee of either house of the Legislature a brief
explanatory statement or note which shall include a reliable estimate of the
anticipated change in state * * * revenues under its provisions.
These statements or notes shall be known as fiscal notes. They shall be
attached to the original of each proposed bill or resolution but shall be
separate therefrom, shall be clearly designated as a fiscal note, and shall not
constitute a part of the law proposed by the bill or resolution.
The author of each bill or any committee
considering same shall present a copy of the bill or resolution, with his
request for a fiscal note, to either the Legislative Budget Office, the
Department of Finance and Administration, the * * * Department of Revenue,
the State Auditor, the state agency with which the bill or resolution is
concerned, the state agency having jurisdiction over the subject of the bill or
resolution, the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review,
or the Legislative Reference Bureau. The fiscal note shall be prepared by the
commission or agency and furnished to the author of the bill or committee
considering same within seven (7) days after the request is made. If the
author of, or committee considering, the bill disagrees with the findings of
the agency or agencies, then the author or committee may also attach and
furnish a fiscal note, based upon his or its information, research, study and
belief which shall then be incorporated in and become a part of the fiscal
note. If the appropriate agency does not furnish a fiscal note, after seven
(7) days' request, then the author or committee may furnish the fiscal note,
based upon his or its information, research, study and belief. If, after careful
investigation, it is determined that no dollar estimate is possible, the note
shall contain a statement to that effect, setting forth the reasons why no
dollar estimate can be given. No comment or opinion shall be included in the
fiscal note with regard to the merit, or lack thereof, of the measure for which
the note is prepared.
* * *Whenever the author of any measure or the committee considering same is
of the opinion that no fiscal note is necessary and the measure is considered
by either house of the Legislature without a fiscal note, any member of either
house may thereafter request a fiscal note be obtained, and in such case the
matter shall be decided by majority vote of those present and voting in the
house of which he is a member.
Any member may request a fiscal note and no measure may be considered without such fiscal note unless two-thirds (2/3) members present and voting in the house of which he is a member vote to dispense with said requirement.
This rule
shall not apply to general appropriations bills * * * and local and private bills.
