Assembly Joint Resolution 21

Creation of the fiscal responsibility fund (first consideration)

Topics: Appropriation, Constitutional amendments: First consideration

Passed the Assembly, then stopped

The Assembly passed it on May 11, 2011, but the Senate never voted on it. A bill has to ⁠. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new proposal.

Introduced, passed

Apr 1, 2011
Committee, passed

Approved
Assembly vote, passed

Passed 57 to 37
Senate vote, stopped here

Stopped here. The Senate never voted on it.
Adopted, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to concur in pursuant to ⁠”

Read the proposal

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Second chamber's vote

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Official term: Concurrence. More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

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Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Currently, the state maintains the budget stabilization fund which is established and administered as required by statute. This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2011 legislature on first consideration, requires the legislature to establish the fiscal responsibility fund in the treasury, and to deposit into the fund the greater of 1) one-half of 1 percent of the actual general fund tax collections in the second preceding fiscal year; or 2) the amount, if any, by which the actual general fund tax collections in the second preceding fiscal year exceeded 6.5 percent of state personal income in the calendar year in which the second preceding fiscal year began. The 6.5 percent threshold may be modified by law by a two-thirds vote of the legislature. The amendment would permit the legislature to appropriate moneys from the fund by a two-thirds vote or by a majority vote if the governor declares that the national real gross domestic product is projected to decline in either the current or succeeding fiscal year. In each fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the balance in the fiscal responsibility fund exceeded 10 percent of actual general fund tax collections in that fiscal year, the legislature shall appropriate by law from the fiscal responsibility fund the excess to be used for property tax relief in the same manner as the net proceeds of the state lottery under article IV, section 24 (6) (a), of the constitution.

A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.

Who's behind it

20 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 20 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker ⁠.

See all 21 names

Authors (20)

Alvin Ott · Republican, Assembly
Joan Ballweg · Republican, Senate
Kathleen Bernier · Republican, Senate
Edward Brooks · Republican, Assembly
Mike Endsley · Republican, Assembly
Mark Honadel · Republican, Assembly
André Jacque · Republican, Senate
Dean Kaufert · Republican, Assembly
Steve Kestell · Republican, Assembly
Joe Knilans · Republican, Assembly
Howard Marklein · Republican, Senate
Jeff Mursau · Republican, Assembly
Warren Petryk · Republican, Assembly
Don Pridemore · Republican, Assembly
Keith Ripp · Republican, Assembly
Roger Rivard · Republican, Assembly
Richard Spanbauer · Republican, Assembly
Jim Steineke · Republican, Assembly
Gary Tauchen · Republican, Assembly
Travis Tranel · Republican, Assembly

Signed on in support (1)

Dale Schultz · Republican, Senate

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this proposal, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

How lawmakers voted

There were 9 votes on this proposal. Taking a bill up right away needs two-thirds of the members, a higher bar than passing it, so that vote can draw more yeses than the final one.