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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SJR 55

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Relating to: accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration).

Administration, department of — Budget and fiscal issues Appropriation Bills, legislative Budget bills and process Constitutional amendments — First consideration Debt, public

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Adopted, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2015 legislature on first

consideration, requires the state to account for and report all funds it receives or

expends in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

The amendment further authorizes the legislature to establish the budgetary

basis of accounting, requires that any deficit of a state fund affected by a budget bill

be reduced annually by 10 percent of any projected increase in tax revenues in that

fund, and requires that, once the deficit is eliminated, the legislature may not pass

any bill that would result in a projected deficit.

A constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures,

and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Gudex (R) , Kapenga (R) , Lasee (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R) , Tiffany (R)

15 cosponsors

Allen (R) , August (R) , Bernier (R) , Craig (R) , Horlacher (R) , Hutton (R) , Jarchow (R) , Knudson (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Kremer (R) , Macco (R) , Murphy (R) , Quinn (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , T. Larson (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption recommended by Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Dec 18, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 29, 2015 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Marklein, Kapenga, Gudex, Lasee, LeMahieu, Nass, Stroebel and Tiffany; cosponsored by Representatives Kooyenga, August, Macco, Bernier, Craig, Horlacher, Hutton, Jarchow, Knudson, Kremer, T. Larson, Quinn, Rohrkaste, Allen and Murphy

  2. Sep 29, 2015 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection

  3. Nov 18, 2015 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Dec 17, 2015 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Dec 18, 2015 · Senate

    Report adoption recommended by Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  6. Dec 18, 2015 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Apr 13, 2016 · Senate

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1