Resolution to Eliminate State Treasurer Introduced

Senator Dan Feyen (R-Fond du Lac) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 3 today, which deletes the state treasurer from the constitution and adds the lieutenant governor to the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, which administers the Common School Fund.    

During the 2015-16 session, the Legislature passed Assembly Joint Resolution 5 which starts the process of amending the state constitution to eliminate the office of the state treasurer.  To complete the process of amending the state constitution, SJR3  must be passed during the 2017-18 legislative session and then approved by voters in a statewide referendum in April 2018.

The question posed to voters would read:

QUESTION 1:  “Elimination of state treasurer.  Shall sections 1 and 3 of

article VI and sections 7 and 8 of article X of the constitution be amended, and section

17 of article XIV of the constitution be created, to eliminate the office of state

treasurer from the constitution and to replace the state treasurer with the lieutenant

governor as a member of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands?"