1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution,
1.3 	article IV, section 4; requiring special legislative
1.4 	election in certain situations.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
 1.7 	An amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, article IV,
1.8 	section 4, is proposed to the people.  If the amendment is
1.9 	adopted, the section will read:
1.10 	Sec. 4. (a) Representatives shall be chosen for a term of
1.11 	two years, except to fill a vacancy.  Senators shall be chosen
1.12 	for a term of four years, except to fill a vacancy and except
1.13 	there shall be an entire new election of all the senators at the
1.14 	first election of representatives after each new legislative
1.15 	apportionment provided for in this article.  The governor shall
1.16 	call elections to fill vacancies in either house of the
1.17 	legislature.
1.18 	(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), if, in an odd-numbered
1.19 	year, a regular session of the legislature ends without passage
1.20 	by both bodies of the legislature of all major finance bills
1.21 	required to operate state government for at least one fiscal
1.22 	year, there shall be an entire new election of all senators and
1.23 	representatives held on the first Tuesday after the second
1.24 	Monday in July of that year.

1.25 	Sec. 2. SUBMISSION TO VOTERS.
 2.1 	The proposed amendment must be submitted at the 2006
2.2 	general election.  The question submitted shall be:
2.3 	"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require an
2.4 	entire new election of all senators and representatives in July
2.5 	of an odd-numbered year in which the legislature ends its
2.6 	regular session without passing all major finance bills
2.7 	necessary to operate state government for at least one fiscal
2.8 	year? 
2.9 	Yes .......
2.10 	                                   No ........"