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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0754.01 CWP

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Wells

SENATE RESOLUTION 98-007

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

That Rule 30 (a) of the Rules of the Senate is amended to read:

30. RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS

Resolutions and memorials shall be of the following classes:

(a) (1) Senate concurrent resolutions, which shall:

(1)  (A) Propose amendments to the state constitution or recommend the holding of a constitutional convention. FOLLOWING APPROVAL BY A TWO­THIRDS VOTE OF ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE, SUCH RESOLUTIONS SHALL BE ENTERED IN FULL IN THE JOURNAL TOGETHER WITH THE AYES AND NOES THEREON AS REQUIRED BY SUBSECTION (1) OF SECTION 2 OF ARTICLE XIX OF THE CONSTITUTION.

(2)  (B) Ratify proposed amendments to the federal constitution. FOLLOWING APPROVAL BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AS REQUIRED BY SENATE RULE 17 (f) (4), SUCH RESOLUTIONS SHALL BE ENTERED IN FULL IN THE JOURNAL TOGETHER WITH THE AYES AND NOES THEREON.

(2) Such SENATE CONCURRENT resolutions, as well as House concurrent resolutions, shall be treated in all respects as bills, except that they shall not be limited as to the time of introduction and action thereon. and they shall be entered in full in the journal when a record vote thereon is taken. HOWEVER, SUCH RESOLUTIONS MAY NOT BE INTRODUCED WITHIN THE LAST TWENTY LEGISLATIVE DAYS OF ANY REGULAR OR SPECIAL SESSION AS PROVIDED FOR IN JOINT RULE 23 (g). All other provisions of these rules or the joint rules applying to bills shall also apply to concurrent resolutions.

(3) Concurrent resolutions of either house shall be referred to an appropriate committee of reference.