Bill Text: TX HJR15 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | 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 (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-09 - Filed [HJR15 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HJR15-Introduced.html
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| By: Lopez | H.J.R. No. 15 | |
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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 in the office of the | ||
| Secretary of State 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 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 in the office of 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 | ||
| in the office of 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 8, 2022. | ||
| 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." | ||
