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                                   1577
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to section 7 of article 4 of the constitution, in
   relation to requiring the governor submit to oral questions  from  the
   legislature annually

   Section  1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 7 of article
 4 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
   § 7. (A) Every bill which shall have passed the  senate  and  assembly
 shall,  before  it  becomes  a law, be presented to the governor; if the
 governor approve, [he or she] THE GOVERNOR shall sign it;  but  if  not,
 [he  or  she]  THE GOVERNOR shall return it with [his or her] THE GOVER-
 NOR'S objections to the house in which it shall have  originated,  which
 shall  enter  the  objections  at  large  on the journal, and proceed to
 reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the  members
 elected  to  that  house  shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent
 together with the objections, to the other  house,  by  which  it  shall
 likewise  be  reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the members
 elected to that  house,  it  shall  become  a  law  notwithstanding  the
 objections  of  the governor. In all such cases the votes in both houses
 shall be determined by yeas and nays,  and  the  names  of  the  members
 voting  shall  be  entered on the journal of each house respectively. If
 any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days  (Sundays
 excepted)  after it shall have been presented to [him or her] THE GOVER-
 NOR, the same shall be a law in like manner as if [he or she] THE GOVER-
 NOR had signed it, unless the legislature shall, by  their  adjournment,
 prevent  its return, in which case it shall not become a law without the
 approval of the governor. No bill shall become a  law  after  the  final
 adjournment  of  the legislature, unless approved by the governor within
 thirty days after such adjournment. If any bill presented to the  gover-
 nor  contain  several  items of appropriation of money, the governor may
 object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 of the bill. In such case the governor shall append to the bill, at  the
 time  of  signing  it, a statement of the items to which [he or she] THE
 GOVERNOR objects; and the appropriation so objected to  shall  not  take
 effect. If the legislature be in session, [he or she] THE GOVERNOR shall
 transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such state-
 ment,  and the items objected to shall be separately reconsidered. If on
 reconsideration one or more of such items be approved by  two-thirds  of
 the  members  elected  to each house, the same shall be part of the law,
 notwithstanding the objections of the governor. All  the  provisions  of
 this  section,  in relation to bills not approved by the governor, shall
 apply in cases in which [he or she] THE GOVERNOR shall withhold approval
 from any item or items contained in a bill appropriating money.
   (B) THE GOVERNOR SHALL SUBMIT IN PERSON TO  ORAL  QUESTIONS  FROM  THE
 LEGISLATURE  FOR  TWO HOURS IN JOINT SESSION ONCE PER YEAR AT A TIME SET
 BY AGREEMENT OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.
   § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendments be
 referred to the first regular legislative session  convening  after  the
 next succeeding general election of the members of the assembly, and, in
 conformity  with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution, be
 published for three months previous to the time of such election.