Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AJR8 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 8
5	5	February 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives ALLEN, PIWOWARCZYK, BEHNKE,
6	6	BRILL, DITTRICH, GUNDRUM, HURD, KNODL, KREIBICH, MAXEY, MURPHY,
7	7	MURSAU, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN and WICHGERS, cosponsored by Senators
8	8	TOMCZYK, BRADLEY and NASS. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
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10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	To amend section 10 (1) (c) of article V of the constitution; relating to: restricting
12	12	the governor[s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an
13	13	appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing
14	14	appropriations in a bill (first consideration).
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2025 legislature on
17	17	first consideration, amends the Wisconsin Constitution to restrict the governor, in
18	18	exercising his or her partial veto power over an appropriation bill, to only rejecting
19	19	one or more entire bill sections of the enrolled bill capable of separate enactment as
20	20	a complete, entire, and workable law and reducing appropriations in the enrolled
21	21	bill. The governor may not partially veto an enrolled bill in any other way.
22	22	Currently, in exercising the partial veto power, the governor is limited only in
23	23	that he or she may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words
24	24	of the enrolled bill and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of two or
25	25	more sentences of the enrolled bill. In Bartlett v. Evers, 2020 WI 68, the Wisconsin
26	26	Supreme Court further restricted the governor[s partial veto power, but there was
27	27	no agreement by the court on the reasons for the new restrictions. The new
28	28	restriction on the governor[s partial veto power contained in this resolution
29	29	subsumes and expands on the current restrictions in the constitution.
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35	35	A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive
36	36	legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.
37	37	Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That:
38	38	SECTION 1. Section 10 (1) (c) of article V of the constitution is amended to
39	39	read:
40	40	[Article V] Section 10 (1) (c) In approving an appropriation bill in part, the
41	41	governor may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of
42	42	the enrolled bill, and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of 2 or more
43	43	sentences only reject one or more entire bill sections of the enrolled bill capable of
44	44	separate enactment as a complete, entire, and workable law and reduce
45	45	appropriations in the enrolled bill.
46	46	Be it further resolved, That this proposed amendment be referred to the
47	47	legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3
48	48	months previous to the time of holding such election.
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