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I N A S S E M B L Y
December 4, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Salka) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 7 of article 4 of the constitution, in
relation to presenting bills to the governor
Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 7 of article
4 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
§ 7. Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly shall,
before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT
HOURS AFTER THE BILL HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY; if the governor
approve, he or she shall sign it; but if not, he or she shall return it
with his or her objections to the house in which it shall have origi-
nated, which shall enter the objections at large on the journal, and
proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two-thirds of
the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall
be sent together with the objections, to the other house, by which it
shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the
members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the
objections of the governor. In all such cases the votes in both houses
shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the members
voting shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If
any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him or her, the same
shall be a law in like manner as if he or she had signed it, unless the
legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which
case it shall not become a law without the approval of the governor. No
bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the legislature,
unless approved by the governor within thirty days after such adjourn-
ment. If any bill presented to the governor contain several items of
appropriation of money, the governor may object to one or more of such
items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case the
governor shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a state-
ment of the items to which he or she objects; and the appropriation so
objected to shall not take effect. If the legislature be in session, he
or she shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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of such statement, and the items objected to shall be separately recon-
sidered. If on reconsideration one or more of such items be approved by
two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the same shall be part
of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the governor. All the
provisions of this section, in relation to bills not approved by the
governor, shall apply in cases in which he or she shall withhold
approval from any item or items contained in a bill appropriating money.
§ 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendment be
referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in
conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.