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1	1		By: Birdwell, Eckhardt S.J.R. No. 39
2		-	SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2025; February 7, 2025,
	3	+	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	4	+	April 9, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	5	+	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 9, 2025,
	6	+	sent to printer.)
	7	+	Click here to see the committee vote
	8	+	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.J.R. No. 39 By: Birdwell
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	11	+	SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
7	12		proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to
8	13		override a veto of the governor following a regular session of the
9	14		legislature.
10	15		BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	16		SECTION 1. Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is
12	17		amended to read as follows:
13	18		Sec. 14. (a) Every bill which shall have passed both houses
14	19		of the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor for [his]
15	20		approval. If the Governor approves of the bill, the Governor [he
16	21		approve he] shall sign it. If the Governor disapproves of the bill,
17	22		the Governor[; but if he disapprove it, he] shall return it, with
18	23		[his] objections, to the House in which it originated. The House to
19	24		which the bill is returned[, which House] shall enter the
20	25		objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider the
21	26		bill [it]. If after [such] reconsideration[,] two-thirds of the
22	27		members present agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the
23	28		objections, to the other House, by which likewise it shall be
24	29		reconsidered. If[; and, if] approved by two-thirds of the members
25	30		of that House, the bill [it] shall become a law. In[; but in] such
26	31		cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays,
27	32		and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall
28	33		be entered on the journal of each House respectively.
29	34		(b) If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor with
30	35		[his] objections within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall
31	36		have been presented to the Governor [him], the same shall be a law,
32	37		in like manner as if [he had] signed by the Governor [it], unless
33	38		the Legislature, by its adjournment, prevent its return, in which
34	39		case it shall be a law, unless the Governor [he] shall file the bill
35	40		[same], with [his] objections, in the office of the Secretary of
36	41		State and give notice thereof by public proclamation within twenty
37	42		days after such adjournment.
38	43		(c) If any bill presented to the Governor contains several
39	44		items of appropriation, the Governor [he] may object to one or more
40	45		of such items, and approve the other portion of the bill. In such
41	46		case the Governor [he] shall append to the bill [Bill], at the time
42	47		of signing it, a statement of the items to which the Governor [he]
43	48		objects, and no item so objected to shall take effect. If the
44	49		Legislature be in session, the Governor [he] shall transmit to the
45	50		House in which the bill originated a copy of such statement and the
46	51		items objected to shall be separately considered. If, on
47	52		reconsideration, one or more of such items be approved by
48	53		two-thirds of the members present of each House, the same shall be
49	54		part of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. If
50	55		any such bill, containing several items of appropriation, not
51	56		having been presented to the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted)
52	57		prior to adjournment, be in the hands of the Governor at the time of
53	58		adjournment, the Governor [he] shall have twenty days from such
54	59		adjournment within which to file objections to any items thereof in
55	60		the office of the Secretary of State and make proclamation of the
56	61		same, and such item or items shall not take effect.
57	62		(d) Subsection (e) of this section applies only to a bill or
58	63		item of appropriation that was:
59	64		(1) passed by the Legislature during a regular session
60	65		and received at least two-thirds vote of the members present in at
61	66		least one House or, for an item of appropriation, was contained in a
62	67		bill that passed as described by this subdivision;
63	68		(2) disapproved or objected to by the Governor on or
64	69		after the 10th day before the date the Legislature adjourned the
65	70		regular session; and
66	71		(3) not reconsidered under this section by both Houses
67	72		during that session.
68	73		(e) The Legislature shall meet at 10 a.m. on the 22nd day
69	74		following the date the Legislature adjourns each regular session to
70	75		reconsider any bill or item of appropriation to which this
71	76		subsection applies, but only if there are such bills or items of
72	77		appropriation to reconsider. The period for reconsideration may
73	78		not exceed five consecutive days, Sundays excepted. During this
74	79		period, unless the Legislature has been called into special session
75	80		by the Governor, the Legislature may not consider any subject other
76	81		than the reconsideration of bills or items of appropriation to
77	82		which this subsection applies. Reconsideration of a bill or item of
78	83		appropriation during this period is conducted in the manner
79	84		provided by Subsection (a) or (c) of this section, as applicable,
80	85		except that a bill or item of appropriation disapproved or objected
81	86		to by the Governor after the Legislature adjourns that was passed by
82	87		at least two-thirds of the members present in only one House must
83	88		first be reconsidered by that House, regardless of whether the bill
84	89		or item of appropriation originated in that House.
85	90		SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
86	91		submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025.
87	92		The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the
88	93		proposition: "The constitutional amendment to allow the
89	94		legislature to override a veto of the governor following a regular
90	95		session of the legislature."
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