September 1, 2010, Introduced by Reps. McMillin, Amash, Calley, Walsh, Knollenberg, Crawford, Horn, Opsommer, DeShazor, Kowall, Agema, Marleau, Rogers, Haveman, Pavlov, Proos, Hansen, Bolger, Paul Scott and Lund and referred to the Committee on Ethics and Elections.
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 prior to
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 prior to 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 prior to 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 prior to 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.