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Pocket veto Any bill presented to a governor after a session has ended must be signed to become law. A governor can refuse to sign such a bill and it will expire. Such vetoes cannot be overridden. [35] The governors of 11 states and Puerto Rico have some form of pocket veto. [37] Reduction veto
Yet, in 2011, Governor Scott Walker controversially crossed out 116 words in a pension-related section of the budget bill. [9] In 2023, Governor Tony Evers used a line-item veto to extend what was supposed to be a two year temporary funding increase for schools to last over 400 years. [10]
The amendatory veto gives the governor "remarkable power" in the legislative process, but typically becomes a source of controversy only when the governor uses it as a public relations tool. [6] A line-item veto rejects one or more items in an appropriations bill. The legislature can override a line-item veto by a three-fifths vote of both ...
A bill that strips power from North Carolina’s Democratic governor became law on Wednesday after state Republicans voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto in a 72-46 supermajority vote in ...
NC Senate overrides Gov. Cooper’s Senate Bill 382 veto, passing controversial relief bill ... The House will have to vote on these as well as whether to override the governor’s veto of Senate ...
The bill would take away the governor’s ability to appoint members of the state election board, granting that power to the state auditor, and limit the attorney general’s authority when ...
Governors can veto state bills, and in all but seven states they have the power of the line-item veto on appropriations bills (a power the President does not have). In some cases legislatures can override a gubernatorial veto by a two-thirds vote, in others by three-fifths.
A Senate veto can be overridden by an absolute majority vote of the Congress of Deputies. [122] In addition, the government can block a bill before passage if it entails government spending or loss of revenue. [123] This prerogative is commonly called veto presupuestario ("budget veto"). [124