Amendment SA2-AJR15

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 2, TO 2001 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 15

February 13, 2001 - Offered by Senators Panzer, Farrow, Zien, Roessler, Cowles, Darling, Lazich, Harsdorf, Rosenzweig, Huelsman, Welch, S. Fitzgerald, Schultz and Ellis.

AJR15-SA2,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the joint resolution as follows:

AJR15-SA2,1,2 1. Page 8, line 19: after that line insert:

AJR15-SA2,1,3 " Section 9m. Joint rule 8 is created to read:

AJR15-SA2,2,4 Joint Rule 8. Emergency statement required. No bill containing an appropriation or increasing the cost of state government or decreasing state revenues in an annual amount exceeding $10,000 shall be passed by either house until the budget bill has passed both houses; except that the governor or the joint committee on finance may recommend such bills to the presiding officer of either house, in writing, for passage and the legislature may enact them, and except that the senate or assembly committee on organization may recommend to the presiding officer of its respective house any such bill not affecting state finances by more than $100,000 biennially. Such bills shall be accompanied by a statement to the effect that they are emergency bills recommended by the governor, the joint committee on finance, or the senate or assembly committee on organization. Such statement by the governor or joint committee on finance shall be sufficient to permit passage prior to the budget bill. Such statement by the senate or assembly committee on organization shall be effective only to permit passage by its respective house.".

AJR15-SA2,2,5 (End)