HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION AA

 

May 17, 2011, 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

 

require bills to be reported or discharged from committee and any

 

changes be made available to members for at least 3 days 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 require bills to be reported or discharged

 

from committee and any changes be made available to members for at

 

least 3 days before passage, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted

 

to the people of the state:

 

ARTICLE IV

 

     Sec. 26. 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 and until it has been reported or discharged from a committee

 

in each house for at least three days before passage. If a bill is

 

changed after being reported or discharged from a committee, that

 

bill shall not be passed until it has been made available to the

 

members of that house for at least three days before passage. Each

 

house of the legislature may waive the three-day requirement of

 

this section with the concurrence of three-fourths of the members

 

elected and serving in that house. The votes and names of the

 

members voting on waiving the three-day requirement of this section

 

shall be entered in the journal. 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.