CRC - 2017                                COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 103
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/19/2018 06:36 PM       .                                
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       Commissioner Lee moved the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
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    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 bill and shall
   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.
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   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.