ORIGINAL SENATE                                                                                                                                             

JOINT RESOLUTION

FILE   NO.  0002

 

ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1,  SENATE

 

FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

2001 BUDGET SESSION

 

 

 

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing to amend Article 4, Section 9
of the Wyoming Constitution to modify the partial veto
authority of the governor.

 

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING,
two-thirds of all the members of the two houses, voting
separately, concurring therein:

 

Section 1.  The following proposal to amend Wyoming
Constitution, Article 4, Section 9 is proposed for
submission to the electors of the State of Wyoming at the
next general election for approval or rejection to become
valid as a part of the Constitution if ratified by a
majority of the electors at the election:

 

Article 4, Section 9.  Veto of items of
appropriations.

 

The governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or
items or part or parts of any bill making appropriations of
money or property embracing general appropriation bill
enacted pursuant to Article 3, Section 34 of this
Constitution, which embraces distinct items, and the item
or items and part or parts of the bill approved shall be
the law, and the item or items and part or parts
disapproved shall be void unless enacted in the following
manner: If the legislature be in session he shall transmit
to the house in which the bill originated a copy of the
item or items or part or parts thereof disapproved,
together with his objections thereto, and the items or
parts objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and
each item or part shall then take the same course as is
prescribed for the passage of bills over the executive
veto.

 

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Section 2.  The Secretary of State shall endorse the
following statement on the proposed amendment:

 

This amendment would limit the governor's partial veto
authority (line item veto authority) to apply only to
general appropriations bills.

 

(END)

 

 

 

 

                                     

Speaker of the House                  President of the Senate

 

                                              

                 Governor                     

                                              

                 TIME APPROVED: _________     

                 DATE APPROVED: _________     

 

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

 

 

Chief Clerk

 

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