Bill Text: TX SJR8 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's line-item veto authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-27 - Filed [SJR8 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SJR8-Introduced.html
  87S10416 TJB-D
 
  By: Seliger S.J.R. No. 8
 
 
 
A JOINT RESOLUTION
  proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's
  line-item veto authority.
         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. [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.]
         SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 2, 2021.
  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
  proposition: "The constitutional amendment to remove the
  governor's line-item veto authority."
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