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S. 335
STATUS INFORMATION
Senate Resolution
Sponsors: Senator Massey
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Introduced in the Senate on January 11, 2011
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Rules
Summary: Appropriation bill
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/11/2011 Senate Introduced (Senate Journal-page 149) 1/11/2011 Senate Referred to Committee on Rules (Senate Journal-page 149)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND RULE 26 OF THE RULES OF THE SENATE, RELATING TO SECOND AND THIRD READING OF BILLS, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY REQUEST FOR FUNDING IN AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR A SPECIFIC COUNTY, MUNICIPALITY, OR NON-PROFIT MUST BE MADE IN WRITING, TO DESIGNATE THE CONTENTS OF THE WRITTEN REQUEST, TO REQUIRE THAT THE REQUEST BE PUBLISHED ON THE SENATE'S INTERNET WEBSITE, AND TO PROVIDE NECESSARY DEFINITIONS.
Be it resolved by the Senate:
That Rule 26 of the Rules of the Senate is amended by adding:
(1) A Senator who requests that funds in an appropriations bill be appropriated to a specific county, municipality, or non-profit organization shall make the request in writing on a form designed by the Senate Finance Committee. The form must include the member's name, the specifics of the request, including the county, municipality, or non-profit organization for which the request was made, the purpose to be accomplished by the request, and any other information as the form may require. The form must be filed with the Senate Finance Committee. The request must be published on the Senate's website within three business days of filing. In the case of a request while an appropriations bill is under consideration by a committee of free conference, the form must be filed with the designee of the senior Senator on the committee of free conference and this filing applies, mutatis mutandis, in the manner of filing with a committee for purposes of consideration of the request in a committee of free conference. A request may not be considered in the Senate Finance Committee, any subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, or in a free conference committee for inclusion in an appropriations bill before the request is filed pursuant to this subsection and published on the Senate's website. (2) For purposes of this subsection, 'appropriations bill' means the annual general appropriations bill, a supplemental appropriations bill, the joint resolution appropriating revenues of the capital reserve fund, a bill appropriating contingency reserve fund revenues, or any other bill appropriating state revenues while these bills are under consideration by the Senate Finance Committee, any subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, and any free conference committee on an appropriations bill. For purposes of this definition, a bill includes a joint resolution."
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