SF 1567

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             proposing an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, 
  1.3             article IV, section 12; authorizing the legislature to 
  1.4             call special sessions.  
  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 12, is proposed to the people.  If the amendment is 
  1.9   adopted, the section will read: 
  1.10     Sec. 12.  The legislature shall meet at the seat of 
  1.11  government in regular session in each biennium at the times 
  1.12  prescribed by law for not exceeding a total of 120 legislative 
  1.13  days.  The legislature shall not meet in regular session, nor in 
  1.14  any adjournment thereof, after the first Monday following the 
  1.15  third Saturday in May of any year.  After meeting at a time 
  1.16  prescribed by law, the legislature may adjourn to another time.  
  1.17  "Legislative day" shall be defined by law.  A special session of 
  1.18  the legislature may be called by the governor or by the 
  1.19  legislature on extraordinary occasions.  The legislature shall 
  1.20  prescribe by law the process by which the legislature can call 
  1.21  itself into special session.  
  1.22     Neither house during a session of the legislature shall 
  1.23  adjourn for more than three days (Sundays excepted) nor to any 
  1.24  other place than that in which the two houses shall be assembled 
  1.25  without the consent of the other house. 
  2.1      Sec. 2.  [SCHEDULE AND QUESTION.] 
  2.2      The amendment proposed in section 1 must be submitted to 
  2.3   the people at the 2002 general election.  The question submitted 
  2.4   must be: 
  2.5      "Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to authorize 
  2.6   the legislature to call special legislative sessions on 
  2.7   extraordinary occasions? 
  2.8                                      Yes .......
  2.9                                      No ........"