HF 500

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to state government; proposing an amendment 
  1.3             to the Minnesota Constitution, article IV, section 12. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.] 
  1.6      An amendment to the Minnesota Constitution is proposed to 
  1.7   the people.  If the amendment is adopted, article IV, section 
  1.8   12, will read: 
  1.9      Sec. 12.  The legislature shall meet at the seat of 
  1.10  government in regular session in each biennium at the times 
  1.11  prescribed by law for not exceeding a total of 120 legislative 
  1.12  days.  The legislature shall not meet in regular session, nor in 
  1.13  any adjournment thereof, after the first Monday following the 
  1.14  third Saturday in May of any year.  A meeting of a regular 
  1.15  session in an even-numbered year must begin on the fourth 
  1.16  Tuesday in March.  After meeting at a time prescribed by law, 
  1.17  the legislature may adjourn to another time.  "Legislative day" 
  1.18  shall be defined by law.  A special session of the legislature 
  1.19  may be called by the governor on extraordinary occasions. 
  1.20     Neither house during a session of the legislature shall 
  1.21  adjourn for more than three days (Sundays excepted) nor to any 
  1.22  other place than that in which the two houses shall be assembled 
  1.23  without the consent of the other house. 
  1.24     Sec. 2.  [QUESTION.] 
  2.1      The proposed amendment shall be submitted at the 1996 
  2.2   general election.  The question proposed shall be: 
  2.3      "Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require 
  2.4   that any even-year meeting of a session of the legislature begin 
  2.5   on the fourth Tuesday in March? 
  2.6                                      Yes .......
  2.7                                      No ........"