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The governor of Puerto Rico has a reduction veto in addition to the package and line-item vetoes. [57] The legislature can override any of these vetoes by a two-thirds majority of each chamber. [ 52 ] [ 34 ] The governor has had the line-item veto since 1917. [ 45 ]
In United States government, the line-item veto, or partial veto, is the power of an executive authority to nullify or cancel specific provisions of a bill, usually a budget appropriations bill, without vetoing the entire legislative package. The line-item vetoes are usually subject to the possibility of legislative override as are traditional ...
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 chambers, as in the case of a full veto. [4] Like a line-item veto, a reduction veto applies to one or more items in an appropriations bill, but instead of eliminating them entirely, the governor ...
Beshear had attempted to veto a portion of a 2024 bill passed by the General Assembly exempting gold from the state’s 6% sales tax. ... The line-item veto is an executive power the governor can ...
House Bill 1293 will restrict the use of certain phosphorus-containing fertilizers and prohibit applying fertilizer within 25 feet of a storm drain.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A bill that strips power from Democratic elected officials is now law in North Carolina. The North Carolina House voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the measure ...
The Line Item Veto Act Pub. L. 104–130 (text) was a federal law of the United States that granted the president the power to line-item veto budget bills passed by Congress. It was signed into law on April 9, 1996, but its effect was brief it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court just over two years later, in Clinton v.
Enacted over the president's veto (14 Stat. 430). March 2, 1867: Vetoed H.R. 1143, an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States. Overridden by House on March 2, 1867, 138–51 (126 votes needed). Overridden by Senate on March 2, 1867, 38–10 (32 votes needed). Enacted over the president's veto (14 Stat. 432).