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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
February 19, 2001 - Introduced by Representatives Carpenter and Turner.
Referred to Committee on Rules.
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1To create assembly rule 98;
relating to: special-interest fiscal estimates.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This assembly resolution prohibits the assembly from considering a bill
containing an appropriation or increasing the cost of state government or decreasing
state revenues in an annual amount exceeding $10,000 without a special-interest
fiscal estimate prepared by the elections board or the ethics board or both.
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2Resolved by the assembly, That:
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3Section
1. Assembly rule 98 is created to read:
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4Assembly Rule 98.
Special-interest fiscal estimates. (1) No bill containing
5an appropriation or increasing the cost of state government or decreasing state
6revenues in an annual amount exceeding $10,000 may be considered by the assembly
7without a special interest fiscal estimate prepared pursuant to this rule.
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(2) Any member may, at any time that a bill is before the assembly, raise the
9issue that the bill requires a special-interest fiscal estimate, and if the presiding
10officer determines that the bill, not having the estimate, requires an estimate, the
1presiding officer shall direct the legislative reference bureau to secure the requisite
2estimate.
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(3) If the special-interest fiscal estimate for the bill has not been provided to
4the members before consideration of the proposal by the assembly, the chief clerk
5shall read the estimate at length to the membership.
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(4) (a) Except as otherwise provided by the joint rules of the legislature,
7special-interest fiscal estimates shall be prepared by the elections board or the ethics
8board or both boards, as designated by the speaker.
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(b) A special-interest fiscal estimate shall set forth the contributions, as
10defined in section 11.01 of the statutes, made by any person who is licensed or is
11required to be licensed as a lobbyist or is registered or is required to be registered as
12a principal under subchapter III of chapter 13 of the statutes and who files or is
13required to file a report under section 13.67 of the statutes identifying the bill or, if
14the bill is a budget bill, the budget bill subject as one for which the principal has made
15or intends to make a lobbying communication.
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(5) Special-interest fiscal estimates are required on original bills only and not
17on substitute amendments or amendments.
