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| 2 | 2 | | By: Johnson S.J.R. No. 44 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A JOINT RESOLUTION |
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| 8 | 8 | | proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's |
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| 9 | 9 | | line-item veto authority. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 14. (a) Every bill which shall have passed both houses |
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| 14 | 14 | | of the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor for his |
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| 15 | 15 | | approval. If he approve he shall sign it; but if he disapprove it, |
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| 16 | 16 | | he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it |
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| 17 | 17 | | originated, which House shall enter the objections at large upon |
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| 18 | 18 | | its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such |
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| 19 | 19 | | reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present agree to pass |
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| 20 | 20 | | the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other House, |
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| 21 | 21 | | by which likewise it shall be reconsidered; and, if approved by |
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| 22 | 22 | | two-thirds of the members of that House, it shall become a law; but |
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| 23 | 23 | | in such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas |
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| 24 | 24 | | and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the |
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| 25 | 25 | | bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (b) If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor with |
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| 27 | 27 | | his objections within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall |
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| 28 | 28 | | have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner |
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| 29 | 29 | | as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by its adjournment, |
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| 30 | 30 | | prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless he shall |
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| 31 | 31 | | file the same, with his objections, in the office of the Secretary |
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| 32 | 32 | | of State and give notice thereof by public proclamation within |
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| 33 | 33 | | twenty days after such adjournment. [If any bill presented to the |
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| 34 | 34 | | Governor contains several items of appropriation he may object to |
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| 35 | 35 | | one or more of such items, and approve the other portion of the |
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| 36 | 36 | | bill. In such case he shall append to the Bill, at the time of |
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| 37 | 37 | | signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and no |
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| 38 | 38 | | item so objected to shall take effect. If the Legislature be in |
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| 39 | 39 | | session, he shall transmit to the House in which the bill originated |
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| 40 | 40 | | a copy of such statement and the items objected to shall be |
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| 41 | 41 | | separately considered. If, on reconsideration, one or more of such |
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| 42 | 42 | | items be approved by two-thirds of the members present of each |
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| 43 | 43 | | House, the same shall be part of the law, notwithstanding the |
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| 44 | 44 | | objections of the Governor. If any such bill, containing several |
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| 45 | 45 | | items of appropriation, not having been presented to the Governor |
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| 46 | 46 | | ten days (Sundays excepted) prior to adjournment, be in the hands of |
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| 47 | 47 | | the Governor at the time of adjournment, he shall have twenty days |
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| 48 | 48 | | from such adjournment within which to file objections to any items |
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| 49 | 49 | | thereof and make proclamation of the same, and such item or items |
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| 50 | 50 | | shall not take effect.] |
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| 51 | 51 | | SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be |
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| 52 | 52 | | submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 4, 2025. |
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| 53 | 53 | | The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the |
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| 54 | 54 | | proposition: "The constitutional amendment to remove the |
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| 55 | 55 | | governor's line-item veto authority." |
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