SJR44 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's line-item veto authority.

  89R2312 TJB-D     By: Johnson S.J.R. No. 44       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 4, 2025.   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."