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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 8
February 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Allen
,
Piwowarczyk
,
Behnke
,
Brill
,
Dittrich
,
Gundrum
,
Hurd
,
Knodl
,
Kreibich
,
Maxey
,
Murphy
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
,
Penterman
and
Wichgers
, cosponsored by Senators
Tomczyk
,
Bradley
and
Nass
. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
AJR8,1,4
1
To amend
section 10 (1) (c) of article V of the constitution;
relating to:
restricting
2
the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an
3
appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing
4
appropriations in a bill (first consideration).
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2025 legislature on first consideration, amends the Wisconsin Constitution to restrict the governor, in exercising his or her partial veto power over an appropriation bill, to only rejecting one or more entire bill sections of the enrolled bill capable of separate enactment as a complete, entire, and workable law and reducing appropriations in the enrolled bill. The governor may not partially veto an enrolled bill in any other way.
Currently, in exercising the partial veto power, the governor is limited only in that he or she may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of the enrolled bill and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of two or more sentences of the enrolled bill. In
Bartlett v. Evers
, 2020 WI 68, the Wisconsin Supreme Court further restricted the governor’s partial veto power, but there was no agreement by the court on the reasons for the new restrictions. The new restriction on the governor’s partial veto power contained in this resolution subsumes and expands on the current restrictions in the constitution.
A proposed constitutional amendment requires adoption by two successive legislatures, and ratification by the people, before it can become effective.
AJR8,2,1
1
Resolved by the
assembly
, the
senate
concurring, That:
AJR8,1
2
Section
1
.
Section 10 (1) (c) of article V of the constitution is amended to
3
read:
AJR8,2,9
4
[Article V] Section 10 (1) (c) In approving an appropriation bill in part, the
5
governor may
not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of
6
the enrolled bill, and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of 2 or more
7
sentences
only reject one or more entire bill sections
of the enrolled bill
capable of
8
separate enactment as a complete, entire, and workable law and reduce
9
appropriations in the enrolled bill
.
AJR8,2,12
10
Be it further resolved, That
this proposed amendment be referred to the
11
legislature to be chosen at the next general election and that it be published for 3
12
months previous to the time of holding such election.
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