Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0926.01 BJA

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Coffman

STATE, VETERANS & MILITARY AFFAIRS

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 98-008

SUBMITTING TO THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 7 OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, PROVIDING THAT REGULAR SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED CALENDAR DAYS.

Resolution Summary

(Note: This summary applies to this resolution as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.)

Reduces the length of regular sessions of the general assembly from 120 days to 100 days.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

SECTION 1.  At the next election at which such question may be submitted, there shall be submitted to the registered electors of the state of Colorado, for their approval or rejection, the following amendment to the constitution of the state of Colorado, to wit:

Section 7 of article V of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended to read:

Section 7.  General assembly ­ shall meet when ­ term of members ­ committees.  The general assembly shall meet in regular session at 10 a.m. no later than the second Wednesday of January of each year. The general assembly shall meet at other times when convened in special session by the governor pursuant to section 9 of article IV of this constitution or by written request by two­thirds of the members of each house to the presiding officer of each house to consider only those subjects specified in such request. The term of service of the members of the general assembly shall begin on the convening of the first regular session of the general assembly next after their election. The committees of the general assembly, unless otherwise provided by the general assembly, shall expire on the convening of the first regular session after a general election. Regular sessions of the general assembly shall not exceed one hundred twenty calendar days.

SECTION 2.  Each elector voting at said election and desirous of voting for or against said amendment shall cast a vote as provided by law either "Yes" or "No" on the proposition: "AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 7 OF ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, PROVIDING THAT REGULAR SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED CALENDAR DAYS."

SECTION 3.  The votes cast for the adoption or rejection of said amendment shall be canvassed and the result determined in the manner provided by law for the canvassing of votes for representatives in Congress, and if a majority of the electors voting on the question shall have voted "Yes", the said amendment shall become a part of the state constitution.