MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1998 Regular Session

To: Constitution

By: Representative Guice

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 36, MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION OF 1890, TO EXTEND BY TWO DAYS THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF REGULAR SESSIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE IN THOSE YEARS WHEN EASTER SUNDAY FALLS ON THE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH DAY OF A 125-DAY SESSION OR ON THE EIGHTY-THIRD DAY OF A 90-DAY SESSION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That the following amendment to the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 is proposed to the qualified electors of the state:

Amend Section 36, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, to read as follows:

"Section 36. (1) The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government in regular session on the Tuesday after the first Monday of January of the year A.D., 1970, and annually thereafter, unless sooner convened by the Governor. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, such sessions shall be limited to a period of one hundred twenty-five (125) calendar days for the 1972 Regular Session and every fourth year thereafter, and ninety (90) calendar days for every other regular session thereafter.

(2) If Easter Sunday falls on the one hundred eighteenth day of a session that is limited under subsection (1) of this section to one hundred twenty-five (125) days or on the eighty-third day of a session that is limited under subsection (1) of this section to ninety (90) days, then the one hundred twenty-five-day session shall be limited to a period of one hundred twenty-seven (127) days and the ninety-day session shall be limited to a period of ninety-two (92) days.

(3) * * * The House of Representatives, by resolution with the Senate concurring therein, and by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of those present and voting in each house, may extend any limited session for a period of thirty (30) days with no limit on the number of extensions to each session."

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to the qualified electors at an election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 1998, as provided by Section 273 of the Constitution and by general law.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the explanation of this proposed amendment for the ballot shall read as follows: "This proposed constitutional amendment extends by two days the maximum length of regular sessions of the Legislature in those years when Easter Sunday falls on the eighty-third day of a 90-day session or on the one hundred eighteenth day of a 125-day session."