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H.C.R. No. 4, as introduced: 83rd Legislative Session (2003-2004) Posted on April 16, 2003

03-2957   
  1.1                    A House concurrent resolution 
  1.2             amending Joint Rules of the Senate and House of 
  1.3             Representatives.  
  1.4      BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the 
  1.5   State of Minnesota, the Senate concurring: 
  1.6      The Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives 
  1.7   for the 83rd Legislature are amended by adding an article to 
  1.8   read: 
  1.9                      ARTICLE V:  BUDGET PROCESS 
  1.10     5.01 [BUDGET RESOLUTION.] The Legislature shall establish 
  1.11  budgetary limits by concurrent resolution in regular session.  
  1.12  After a concurrent budget resolution is adopted, the limits in 
  1.13  the resolution are effective during the regular session in the 
  1.14  year in which the resolution is adopted, unless the Legislature 
  1.15  subsequently adopts by concurrent resolution a different or 
  1.16  amended limit or limits for the same fiscal biennium.  
  1.17     In the odd-numbered year, the resolution must set the 
  1.18  maximum limit on net expenditures for the next fiscal biennium 
  1.19  for the general fund, an amount or amounts to be set aside as a 
  1.20  budget reserve and a cash flow account, and limits for each 
  1.21  major tax and appropriation bill under Joint Rule 5.02.  In the 
  1.22  even-numbered year, the budget resolution must account for net 
  1.23  expenditures in excess of or less than the general fund 
  1.24  expenditures in the current fiscal biennium estimated by the 
  2.1   most recent state budget forecast.  
  2.2      In both years, the houses must agree on and adopt a 
  2.3   concurrent budget resolution before conference committees on the 
  2.4   major tax and appropriation bills may make decisions on 
  2.5   appropriations or changes in taxes.  Within three days after the 
  2.6   third committee deadline, each house must transmit a concurrent 
  2.7   budget resolution to the other house for further consideration.  
  2.8   The resolution of each house must reflect the content of the 
  2.9   major tax and appropriation bills in each house at that time.  
  2.10  Thereafter, either house may amend a resolution in its 
  2.11  possession and transmit it to the other house.  Joint Rule 2.06 
  2.12  does not apply.  
  2.13     If the House and Senate have not agreed on the resolution 
  2.14  by the second Monday before the constitutional deadline for 
  2.15  adjournment, each house must convene each day except Sunday 
  2.16  thereafter, and neither house may take action on any matter 
  2.17  other than the resolution until the houses have agreed on the 
  2.18  resolution.  
  2.19     5.02 [MAJOR TAX AND APPROPRIATION BILLS.] The major tax and 
  2.20  appropriation bills are: 
  2.21     (1) the omnibus tax bill; 
  2.22     (2) the family and early childhood appropriations bill; 
  2.23     (3) the kindergarten to grade 12 education appropriations 
  2.24  bill; 
  2.25     (4) the higher education appropriations bill; 
  2.26     (5) the health and human services appropriations bill; 
  2.27     (6) the public safety, corrections, and criminal justice 
  2.28  appropriations bill; 
  2.29     (7) the economic development appropriations bill; 
  2.30     (8) the agriculture appropriations bill; 
  2.31     (9) the environment and natural resources appropriations 
  2.32  bill; 
  2.33     (10) the state government appropriations bill; 
  2.34     (11) the transportation appropriations bill; 
  2.35     (12) the civil laws and judiciary appropriations bill; and 
  2.36     (13) the capital investment bill. 
  3.1      The major tax and appropriation bills may not be combined 
  3.2   but may be divided.  
  3.3      The Legislature shall agree on which state agencies are 
  3.4   assigned to each major appropriation bill.