Bill Text: MI HJRCCC | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature; other; limitations on when tax or appropriations bills may be reported out of committee or passed out of the legislature; provide for. Amends sec. 26 of art. IV of the state constitution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-12-04 - Printed Joint Resolution Filed 11/30/2012 [HJRCCC Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HJRCCC-Introduced.html
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION CCC
November 29, 2012, Introduced by Rep. McMillin and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 26 of article IV, to
prohibit certain bills from being reported out of committee for 72
hours after introduction and to require that any changes to certain
bills be made available to the public for at least 24 hours before
passage.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to prohibit certain bills from being reported
out of committee for 72 hours after introduction and to require
that any changes to certain bills be made available to the public
for at least 24 hours before passage, is proposed, agreed to, and
submitted to the people of the state:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 26. (1) No bill shall be passed or become a law at any
regular session of the legislature until it has been printed or
reproduced and in the possession of each house for at least five
days.
(2) The legislature shall not hold a committee hearing or vote
to move an appropriations bill or a bill modifying a state tax out
of committee until 72 hours after the bill has been introduced. If
a bill described in this subsection is changed after being reported
or discharged from a committee, that bill shall not be passed until
it has been made available to the public for at least 24 hours
before passage. A committee may waive the 72-hour requirement of
this subsection with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members
of the committee. Each house of the legislature may waive the 24-
hour requirement of this subsection with the concurrence of two-
thirds of the members elected and serving in that house.
(3) Every bill shall be read three times in each house before
the final passage thereof. No bill shall become a law without the
concurrence of a majority of the members elected to and serving in
each house. On the final passage of bills, the votes and names of
the members voting thereon shall be entered in the journal.
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.
