January 16, 2013, Introduced by Senator ANDERSON and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, by amending section 13 of article IV, to
limit the time that the legislature may meet.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state
constitution of 1963, to limit the time that the legislature may
meet, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the
state:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 13. The legislature shall meet at the seat of government
on the second Wednesday in January of each year at twelve o'clock
noon. Each regular session shall adjourn without day, on a day
determined by concurrent resolution, at twelve o'clock noon. Except
as otherwise provided in this section, the legislature shall not
meet in regular session after the November election in an even
numbered year. The legislature may meet in regular session after
the November election in an even numbered year if a resolution is
adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected and serving
in each house. The resolution convening the legislature shall
specify a purpose or purposes for holding the session, and any
session shall consider only measures germane to the purpose or
purposes expressed in the resolution. Any business, bill or joint
resolution pending at the final adjournment of a regular session
held in an odd numbered year shall carry over with the same status
to the next regular session.
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.