IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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A RESOLUTION amending Rules 16 and 19 of the Rules of the Jackson County Legislature relating to the transfer of legislation between committees.
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RESOLUTION NO. 21667, July 1, 2024
INTRODUCED BY Manuel Abarca IV, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, the Legislature desires to change its rules regarding how legislation can be transferred from one committee to another; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri that Rules 16 and 19 of the Rules of the Jackson County Legislature be and hereby are amended to read:
RULE SIXTEEN. Ordinances - Introduction.
A. Proposals for ordinances shall be introduced by members by submitting a Request for Legislative Action (RLA), including short title, to the County Counselor’s Office. The County Counselor’s Office shall assign a number to the proposal and transmit it to the County Clerk to place it on the agenda for the next regular meeting. Upon the reading of the short title at the meeting, the sponsoring member or members may briefly explain the purpose and application of the proposal.
B. A proposal for any ordinance which would grant a permit under Chapter 240 of the Jackson County Code, the Unified Development Code, shall be assigned a number and placed on the agenda for the next regular meeting by the Clerk, without a sponsor. For purposes of compliance with other provisions of this Rule, Rule Seventeen governing the perfection of ordinances, Rule Twenty-one, governing the results of no action on ordinances and resolutions, and Rule Twenty-two, governing the dropping of ordinances and resolutions, the chair of the Legislature’s Land Use Committee shall be deemed the sponsor of such an ordinance. (Resolution #11766)
C. Proposals for ordinances shall be assigned to the appropriate committee by the Chairman of the Legislature. If a [sponsor of the proposal] Legislator objects to assignment to that particular committee, the [sponsoring member] Legislator may move for reassignment to some other designated committee. Passage of such a motion for reassignment requires a simple [two-thirds] majority of those present and voting.
D. A proposal for ordinance may be immediately added to the perfection agenda of the same meeting at which the proposal was introduced only if a motion for immediate perfection is carried. Passage of such a motion requires a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the ordinance appropriates funds, a motion for immediate perfection will be defeated by two “No” votes. (Resolution #17631)
E. No proposal for ordinance shall contain more than one subject.
RULE NINETEEN. Resolutions - Introduction and Assignment to Committee.
A. Proposals for resolutions shall be introduced by members by first submitting a written draft of the proposal, including short title, to the County Counselor’s office. The County Counselor’s office shall then assign a number to the proposal and transmit it to the County Clerk to place it on the agenda for the next regular meeting. Upon the reading of the short title at the meeting, the sponsoring member or members may briefly explain the purpose and application of the proposal.
B. Unless immediately adopted, proposals for resolutions shall be assigned to the appropriate committee by the Chair of the Legislature. If a [sponsor of a resolution] Legislator objects to the committee assignment, that member may move for reassignment to some other designated committee. Passage of such a motion requires a [two-thirds] simple majority of those present and voting.
C. If a Resolution is assigned to committee, the committee may:
(1) Accept the resolution in the form approved by the Counselor;
(2) Amend the resolution; or
(3) Substitute a new draft of the resolution.
A committee may:
(1) Take no action;
(2) Return the resolution to the Legislature with no recommendation;
(3) Recommend that the Legislature do not pass the resolution; or
(4) Recommend that the Legislature do pass the resolution, the resolution as amended, or its substituted draft of the resolution.
D. Amendments by a committee or substitution of a new draft by a committee shall not be contrary to or beyond the scope of the short title of the resolution.
E. If a committee’s vote on a motion to recommend “do pass” is a tie, the motion is defeated, and the proposal shall be returned to the Legislature with no recommendation.
F. Copies of any resolution which has been amended in committee shall show the amendments by bracketing any words which the amendment deletes and underlining any words which the amendment adds. Committee chairs shall ensure that the County Counselor provides a sufficient number of copies of any resolution so amended to the Legislature at the regular meeting at which it is reported out of committee. Neither a committee nor the Legislature as a Whole may take action on a resolution amended in committee or on the floor of the Legislature until the amendment has been reduced to writing as set out in this paragraph, at a minimum via pen and ink. (Resolution #14966)
Enacted and Approved
Effective Date: This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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County Counselor
Certificate of Passage
I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 21667 of July 1, 2024, was duly passed on ______________________, 2024 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows:
Yeas _______________ Nays ______________
Abstaining _________ Absent ____________
________________________ ____________________________
Date Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature