as introduced - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am
A bill for an act
relating to legislative organization; requiring all conference committee provisions
to have been passed by one or the other body; proposing coding for new law in
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 3.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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The rules of each house and the joint rules of the
legislature must conform to the provisions of this section.
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A conference committee report must
not contain significant changes to current policies or statutes if those changes have not
been contained substantially in a bill or resolution that has been passed by one of the two
bodies. Any member may object to a conference committee report on these grounds, and if
such an objection is received and sustained by a majority of the members of one house, the
conference committee report must be referred to a joint meeting of the Rules Committees
of both houses for review. This joint committee must meet within three calendar days of
receiving such a referral, and shall either:
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(1) determine that one body has passed a substantially similar policy in bill or
resolution form, and therefore refer the conference report back to the floor of both bodies
with a statement to that effect, including in the statement the time, date, and details
of the passage; or
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(2) shall report the conference committee report back to the floors with a notation
that the policy in question has not been passed in a substantially similar form by either
body, and therefore shall make a recommendation that the report be rejected.
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