SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION C
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution of 1963, by amending section 37 of article IV, to provide for approval by the legislature of any rule or regulation promulgated by an administrative agency with a compliance cost of $1,000,000.00 or more within five years after implementation of the rule or regulation.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state constitution of 1963, to provide for approval by the legislature of any rule or regulation promulgated by an administrative agency with a compliance cost of $1,000,000.00 or more within five years after implementation of the rule or regulation, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of the state:
article IV
Sec. 37. (1) A rule or regulation promulgated by an administrative agency with an estimated compliance cost on persons in this state of $1,000,000.00 or more within five years after implementation of the rule or regulation takes effect only if the legislature, by concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house of the legislature, approves the rule or regulation.
(2) The legislature may by concurrent resolution empower a joint committee of the legislature, acting between sessions, to suspend any rule or regulation promulgated by an administrative agency subsequent to the adjournment of the last preceding regular legislative session. Such suspension shall continue no longer than the end of the next regular legislative session.
Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be submitted to the people of the state at the next general election in the manner provided by law.