SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE JOINT
RESOLUTION NO. 59
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WRIGHT.
Read 1st time March 14, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment repealing section 24 of article IV of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof relating to the state budget.
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2002, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article IV of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
Section A. Section 24, article IV, Constitution of Missouri, is repealed and one new section adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 24, to read as follows:
Section 24. The governor shall, within [thirty] seven calendar days after [it] the general assembly convenes in each
regular session, submit to the general assembly a budget for the ensuing appropriation period, containing the estimated
available revenues of the state and a complete and itemized plan of proposed expenditures of the state and all its agencies,
together with [his] any recommendations of any laws necessary to provide revenues sufficient to meet the expenditures.
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