Florida Senate - 2016 SJR 78
By Senator Hutson
6-00074-16 201678__
1 Senate Joint Resolution
2 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 8
3 of Article III of the State Constitution to limit the
4 period during which the Legislature may reconsider the
5 veto of a specific appropriation of a general
6 appropriation bill to 90 days after the Governor files
7 objections, to require a vetoed specific appropriation
8 from the general revenue fund which is not
9 legislatively reinstated to be transferred to the
10 budget stabilization fund, and to specify that the
11 amount transferred may not be used in calculating the
12 fund’s principal balance limitation.
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14 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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16 That the following amendment to Section 8 of Article III of
17 the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
18 the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
19 general election or at an earlier special election specifically
20 authorized by law for that purpose:
21 ARTICLE III
22 LEGISLATURE
23 SECTION 8. Executive approval and veto.—
24 (a) Every bill passed by the legislature shall be presented
25 to the governor for approval and shall become a law if the
26 governor approves and signs it, or fails to veto it within seven
27 consecutive days after presentation. If during that period or on
28 the seventh day the legislature adjourns sine die or takes a
29 recess of more than thirty days, the governor shall have fifteen
30 consecutive days from the date of presentation to act on the
31 bill. In all cases except general appropriation bills, the veto
32 shall extend to the entire bill. The governor may veto any
33 specific appropriation in a general appropriation bill, but may
34 not veto any qualification or restriction without also vetoing
35 the appropriation to which it relates.
36 (b) When a bill or any specific appropriation of a general
37 appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall transmit
38 signed objections thereto to the house in which the bill
39 originated if in session. If that house is not in session, the
40 governor shall file them with the custodian of state records,
41 who shall lay them before that house at its next regular or
42 special session, whichever occurs first, and they shall be
43 entered on its journal. If the originating house votes to
44 reenact re-enact a vetoed bill measure, whether in a regular or
45 special session, and the other house does not consider or fails
46 to reenact re-enact the vetoed bill measure, no further
47 consideration by either house at any subsequent session may be
48 taken. If a vetoed bill measure is presented at a special
49 session and the originating house does not consider it, the bill
50 measure will be available for consideration at any intervening
51 special session and until the end of the next regular session.
52 (c) If each house shall, by a two-thirds vote, reenacts re
53 enact the bill or reinstate the vetoed specific appropriation of
54 a general appropriation bill, the vote of each member voting
55 shall be entered on the respective journals, and the bill shall
56 become law or the specific appropriation reinstated, the veto
57 notwithstanding.
58 (c) When a specific appropriation of a general
59 appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall file
60 signed objections thereto with the custodian of state records.
61 Within ninety days after the date the objections are filed, the
62 legislature may reconsider the vetoed specific appropriation
63 during a special or regular session of the legislature. If each
64 house, by a two-thirds vote, reinstates the vetoed specific
65 appropriation of a general appropriation bill, the vote of each
66 member voting shall be entered on the respective journals, and
67 the specific appropriation shall be reinstated, the veto
68 notwithstanding. If a vetoed specific appropriation that
69 originates from the general revenue fund is not reinstated by
70 the legislature, the vetoed specific appropriation shall be
71 transferred to the budget stabilization fund. The amount
72 transferred shall not be used in calculating the principal
73 balance limitation specified for the budget stabilization fund
74 in section 19(g) of this article.
75 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
76 placed on the ballot:
77 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
78 ARTICLE III, SECTION 8
79 VETOED APPROPRIATIONS; RECONSIDERATION BY THE LEGISLATURE;
80 TRANSFERS TO THE BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND.—Proposing an
81 amendment to the State Constitution to limit the period during
82 which the Legislature may reconsider the veto of a specific
83 appropriation of a general appropriation bill to 90 days after
84 the Governor files objections and to require a vetoed specific
85 appropriation from the general revenue fund which is not
86 legislatively reinstated to be transferred to the budget
87 stabilization fund. The amount transferred may not be used in
88 calculating the fund’s principal balance limitation.