CRC - 2017 COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT Proposal No. P 103 Ì919338FÎ919338 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 4/OO . 03/19/2018 06:36 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Commissioner Lee moved the following: 1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete line 10 4 and insert: 5 Sections 3 and 8 of Article III of the State Constitution 6 are 7 8 After line 50 9 insert: 10 SECTION 8. Executive approval and veto.— 11 (a) Every bill passed by the legislature shall be presented 12 to the governor for approval as soon as practicable after 13 passage, but no more than fourteen days after adjournment sine 14 die of the session at which the bill passed. The billandshall 15 become a law if the governor approves and signs it, or fails to 16 veto it within seven consecutive days after presentation. If 17 during that period or on the seventh day the legislature 18 adjourns sine die or takes a recess of more than thirty days, 19 the governor shall have fifteen consecutive days from the date 20 of presentation to act on the bill. In all cases except general 21 appropriation bills, the veto shall extend to the entire bill. 22 The governor may veto any specific appropriation in a general 23 appropriation bill, but may not veto any qualification or 24 restriction without also vetoing the appropriation to which it 25 relates. 26 (b) When a bill or any specific appropriation of a general 27 appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall transmit 28 signed objections thereto to the house in which the bill 29 originated if in session. If that house is not in session, the 30 governor shall file them with the custodian of state records, 31 who shall lay them before that house at its next regular or 32 special session, whichever occurs first, and they shall be 33 entered on its journal. If the originating house votes to re 34 enact a vetoed measure, whether in a regular or special session, 35 and the other house does not consider or fails to re-enact the 36 vetoed measure, no further consideration by either house at any 37 subsequent session may be taken. If a vetoed measure is 38 presented at a special session and the originating house does 39 not consider it, the measure will be available for consideration 40 at any intervening special session and until the end of the next 41 regular session. 42 (c) If each house shall, by a two-thirds vote, re-enact the 43 bill or reinstate the vetoed specific appropriation of a general 44 appropriation bill, the vote of each member voting shall be 45 entered on the respective journals, and the bill shall become 46 law or the specific appropriation reinstated, the veto 47 notwithstanding. 48 49 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 50 And the title is amended as follows: 51 Delete lines 2 - 5 52 and insert: 53 Sections 3 and 8 of Article III of the State 54 Constitution to provide that the Legislature convene 55 for regular session on the second Tuesday after the 56 first Monday in January of each even-numbered year and 57 to prescribe the timeframe by which bills passed by 58 the Legislature must be presented to the Governor.