Bill Text: FL S0078 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Veto of Specific Appropriations/Reconsideration by the Legislature

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-03-11 - Died in Judiciary [S0078 Detail]

Download: Florida-2016-S0078-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2016                                     SJR 78
       
       
        
       By Senator Hutson
       
       
       
       
       
       6-00074-16                                              201678__
    1                       Senate Joint Resolution                     
    2         A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 8
    3         of Article III of the State Constitution to limit the
    4         period during which the Legislature may reconsider the
    5         veto of a specific appropriation of a general
    6         appropriation bill to 90 days after the Governor files
    7         objections, to require a vetoed specific appropriation
    8         from the general revenue fund which is not
    9         legislatively reinstated to be transferred to the
   10         budget stabilization fund, and to specify that the
   11         amount transferred may not be used in calculating the
   12         fund’s principal balance limitation.
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   14  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         That the following amendment to Section 8 of Article III of
   17  the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
   18  the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
   19  general election or at an earlier special election specifically
   20  authorized by law for that purpose:
   21                             ARTICLE III                           
   22                             LEGISLATURE                           
   23         SECTION 8. Executive approval and veto.—
   24         (a) Every bill passed by the legislature shall be presented
   25  to the governor for approval and shall become a law if the
   26  governor approves and signs it, or fails to veto it within seven
   27  consecutive days after presentation. If during that period or on
   28  the seventh day the legislature adjourns sine die or takes a
   29  recess of more than thirty days, the governor shall have fifteen
   30  consecutive days from the date of presentation to act on the
   31  bill. In all cases except general appropriation bills, the veto
   32  shall extend to the entire bill. The governor may veto any
   33  specific appropriation in a general appropriation bill, but may
   34  not veto any qualification or restriction without also vetoing
   35  the appropriation to which it relates.
   36         (b) When a bill or any specific appropriation of a general
   37  appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall transmit
   38  signed objections thereto to the house in which the bill
   39  originated if in session. If that house is not in session, the
   40  governor shall file them with the custodian of state records,
   41  who shall lay them before that house at its next regular or
   42  special session, whichever occurs first, and they shall be
   43  entered on its journal. If the originating house votes to
   44  reenact re-enact a vetoed bill measure, whether in a regular or
   45  special session, and the other house does not consider or fails
   46  to reenact re-enact the vetoed bill measure, no further
   47  consideration by either house at any subsequent session may be
   48  taken. If a vetoed bill measure is presented at a special
   49  session and the originating house does not consider it, the bill
   50  measure will be available for consideration at any intervening
   51  special session and until the end of the next regular session.
   52         (c) If each house shall, by a two-thirds vote, reenacts re
   53  enact the bill or reinstate the vetoed specific appropriation of
   54  a general appropriation bill, the vote of each member voting
   55  shall be entered on the respective journals, and the bill shall
   56  become law or the specific appropriation reinstated, the veto
   57  notwithstanding.
   58         (c) When a specific appropriation of a general
   59  appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall file
   60  signed objections thereto with the custodian of state records.
   61  Within ninety days after the date the objections are filed, the
   62  legislature may reconsider the vetoed specific appropriation
   63  during a special or regular session of the legislature. If each
   64  house, by a two-thirds vote, reinstates the vetoed specific
   65  appropriation of a general appropriation bill, the vote of each
   66  member voting shall be entered on the respective journals, and
   67  the specific appropriation shall be reinstated, the veto
   68  notwithstanding. If a vetoed specific appropriation that
   69  originates from the general revenue fund is not reinstated by
   70  the legislature, the vetoed specific appropriation shall be
   71  transferred to the budget stabilization fund. The amount
   72  transferred shall not be used in calculating the principal
   73  balance limitation specified for the budget stabilization fund
   74  in section 19(g) of this article.
   75         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
   76  placed on the ballot:
   77                      CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT                     
   78                       ARTICLE III, SECTION 8                      
   79         VETOED APPROPRIATIONS; RECONSIDERATION BY THE LEGISLATURE;
   80  TRANSFERS TO THE BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND.—Proposing an
   81  amendment to the State Constitution to limit the period during
   82  which the Legislature may reconsider the veto of a specific
   83  appropriation of a general appropriation bill to 90 days after
   84  the Governor files objections and to require a vetoed specific
   85  appropriation from the general revenue fund which is not
   86  legislatively reinstated to be transferred to the budget
   87  stabilization fund. The amount transferred may not be used in
   88  calculating the fund’s principal balance limitation.