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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 101

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SR101..........................................................by SCHROEDER
GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS - Amends Rule 42 of the Rules of the Senate to
permit the State Affairs Committee or other designated committee to submit
a report on an appointment by the Governor; and to provide that if the
committee fails to submit a report to the whole Senate for adoption, the
adoption shall be deemed rejected and the Senate's consent shall be deemed
not to have been given to the appointment.
                                                                        
01/19    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/22    Rpt prt - to 10th Ord - Ref'd to Jud

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2007
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 101
                                                                        
                                        BY SCHROEDER
                                                                        
  1                                 A SENATE RESOLUTION
  2    PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF RULE 42 OF THE RULES OF THE SENATE.
                                                                        
  3    Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  4        WHEREAS, the Senate deems it necessary and desirable to amend Rule  42  of
  5    the Rules of the Senate.
  6        NOW,  THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Senate, assembled in
  7    the First Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, that  Rule  42
  8    of the Rules of the Senate be amended to read as follows:
  9                                       RULE 42
 10        Gubernatorial  Appointments.--Any appointment by the Governor of the State
 11    of Idaho which requires confirmation by the Senate shall be on the desk of the
 12    President of the Senate and announced therefrom while  in  session,  not  less
 13    than  three  legislative days before being acted upon by the Senate, excepting
 14    therefrom any nomination received after the fifty-seventh day of the  session;
 15    any  appointee  so chosen by the Governor may be examined by the State Affairs
 16    Committee or other designated committee, which committee shall  may  submit  a
 17    report to the whole Senate for adoption.
 18        Adoption  by the Senate of the committee report, if any, shall be affirma-
 19    tive action of the Senate on the confirmation of the appointee unless the com-
 20    mittee report contains no recommendation. If the committee does not  submit  a
 21    report  to  the  whole  Senate  for  adoption, the appointment shall be deemed
 22    rejected and the Senate's consent shall be deemed not to have  been  given  to
 23    the appointment.
 24        Any  report  of  the committee recommending confirmation of an appointment
 25    need be held for only one day  when  the  recommendation  for  appointment  or
 26    report  of  the appointment has been read across the desk more than three days
 27    previously.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

                      STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                             RS16750
                                
The purpose of this legislation is to amend Senate Rule 42 to provide that
when considering gubernatorial appointments, if the committee to which the 
appointment is referred does not submit a report to the Senate for adoption, 
the appointment shall be deemed rejected and the Senate's consent shall be 
deemed to not have been given to the appointment.



                           FISCAL IMPACT

None.



Contact Person:

Senator Gary J. Schroeder
332-1324
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