Bill Text: TX HJR145 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a legislative session.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR145 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR145-Introduced.html
By: Elkins | H.J.R. No. 145 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to | ||
override a veto of the governor following a legislative session. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. SECTION 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 14. (a) Every bill which shall have passed both | ||
houses of the Legislature shall be presented to the Governor for his | ||
approval. If he approve he shall sign it; but if he disapprove it, | ||
he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it | ||
originated, which House shall enter the objections at large upon | ||
its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such | ||
reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present agree to pass | ||
the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other House, | ||
by which likewise it shall be reconsidered; and, if approved by | ||
two-thirds of the members of that House, it shall become a law; but | ||
in such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas | ||
and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the | ||
bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. | ||
(b) If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor with | ||
his objections within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall | ||
have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner | ||
as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by its adjournment, | ||
prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless he shall | ||
file the same, with his objections, in the office of the Secretary | ||
of State and give notice thereof by public proclamation within | ||
twenty days after such adjournment. | ||
(c) If any bill presented to the Governor contains several | ||
items of appropriation he may object to one or more of such items, | ||
and approve the other portion of the bill. In such case he shall | ||
append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the | ||
items to which he objects, and no item so objected to shall take | ||
effect. If the Legislature be in session, he shall transmit to the | ||
House in which the bill originated a copy of such statement and the | ||
items objected to shall be separately considered. If, on | ||
reconsideration, one or more of such items be approved by | ||
two-thirds of the members present of each House, the same shall be | ||
part of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. If | ||
any such bill, containing several items of appropriation, not | ||
having been presented to the Governor ten days (Sundays excepted) | ||
prior to adjournment, be in the hands of the Governor at the time of | ||
adjournment, he shall have twenty days from such adjournment within | ||
which to file objections to any items thereof and make proclamation | ||
of the same, and such item or items shall not take effect. | ||
(d) The Legislature shall meet to reconsider any bill | ||
disapproved by the Governor under Subsection (a) of this section or | ||
any item of appropriation in a bill to which the Governor objects | ||
under Subsection (c) of this section if the bill or statement of | ||
objection to the item of appropriation is: | ||
(1) returned to the House in which the bill originated | ||
on or after the third day before the date of adjournment of the | ||
session at which the bill was passed; or | ||
(2) filed with the Secretary of State after the | ||
adjournment of the session at which the bill was passed. | ||
(e) The period for reconsideration under Subsection (d) of | ||
this section begins at 10 a.m. on the day following the last day on | ||
which the Governor is authorized to file a disapproval or objection | ||
with the Secretary of State and may not exceed five consecutive | ||
days. During this period, unless the Legislature has been called | ||
into special session by the Governor, the Legislature may not | ||
consider any subject other than the reconsideration of bills or | ||
items of appropriation described by Subsection (d) of this section. | ||
Reconsideration of a bill or item of appropriation during this | ||
period is conducted in the manner provided by Subsection (a) or (c) | ||
of this section, as applicable. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to allow the | ||
legislature to override a veto of the governor following a | ||
legislative session." |