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Senate Joint Resolution 2 History
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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2
(By Senators Sypolt and Miller)
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[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia, amending section fourteen, article VII thereof,
relating to creating a veto session of the Legislature to
consider bills vetoed by the Governor; numbering and
designating such proposed amendment; and providing a
summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed
amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of
the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment
to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to
the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in
the year 2014, which proposed amendment is that section fourteen,
article VII thereof be amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE VII. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
§14. Governor's approval or disapproval of bills passed by
the Legislature.
Subject to the provisions of section fifteen of this article,
every bill passed by the Legislature shall, before it becomes a
law, be presented to the Governor. If he the Governor approves, he
or she shall sign it, and thereupon it shall become a law; but if
not, he the Governor shall return it, with his or her objections,
to the house in which it originated, which house shall enter the
objections at large upon its journal, and may proceed to reconsider
the returned bill. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
fifty-one, article VI of this Constitution, any such the bill may
be reconsidered even if the Legislature is at the time in extended
session for the sole purpose of considering the budget bill, as
specified in said section fifty-one. If, after any such
reconsideration, a majority of the members elected to that house
agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the
objections of the Governor to the other house, by which it may
likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by a majority of the
members elected to that house, it shall become a law,
notwithstanding the objections of the Governor. If upon any such
reconsideration the bill is amended and reenacted, then it shall be
again sent to the Governor and he or she shall act upon it as if it were before him or her for the first time. In all cases, the vote
of each house shall be determined by yeas and nays to be entered on
the journal.
Any bill which shall not be is not returned by the Governor
within five days, Sundays excepted, after it shall have been is
presented to him or her shall be a law, in the same manner as if he
or she had signed it, unless the Legislature shall, by adjournment
sine die, prevent its return, in which case it shall be filed with
his or her objections in the office of the Secretary of State
within fifteen days, Sundays excepted, after such adjournment, or
become a law. Upon approval of this amendment, there shall be a
veto session of the Legislature of no less than one day nor more
than three days, to commence no later than forty-five days after
the end of the regular session of the Legislature, in which the
Legislature may meet to reconsider or override the veto of any bill
by the Governor. The Legislature may provide by general law the
manner of procedure for a veto session.
__Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, the proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment
No. 1" and designated as the "Veto Session Amendment" and the
purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To
amend section fourteen, article VII of the State Constitution so as to provide for a veto session of the Legislature in which to
consider bills vetoed by the Governor."
NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to propose an
amendment to section fourteen, article VII of the West Virginia
Constitution, relating to creating a veto session of the
Legislature to consider bills vetoed by the Governor.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present Constitution, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.