Florida Senate - 2017 SJR 116
By Senator Hutson
7-00145-17 2017116__
1 Senate Joint Resolution
2 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to Section 8
3 of Article III of the State Constitution to require
4 the transfer of the amount of a vetoed specific
5 appropriation originating from the General Revenue
6 Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund, to specify that
7 the amount transferred may not be used in calculating
8 the Budget Stabilization Fund’s principal balance
9 limitation, and to provide for the transfer of funds
10 for vetoed specific appropriations that are
11 reinstated.
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13 Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15 That the following amendment to Section 8 of Article III of
16 the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be submitted to
17 the electors of this state for approval or rejection at the next
18 general election or at an earlier special election specifically
19 authorized by law for that purpose:
20 ARTICLE III
21 LEGISLATURE
22 SECTION 8. Executive approval and veto.—
23 (a) Every bill passed by the legislature shall be presented
24 to the governor for approval and shall become a law if the
25 governor approves and signs it, or fails to veto it within seven
26 consecutive days after presentation. If during that period or on
27 the seventh day the legislature adjourns sine die or takes a
28 recess of more than thirty days, the governor shall have fifteen
29 consecutive days from the date of presentation to act on the
30 bill. In all cases except general appropriation bills, the veto
31 shall extend to the entire bill. The governor may veto any
32 specific appropriation in a general appropriation bill, but may
33 not veto any qualification or restriction without also vetoing
34 the appropriation to which it relates.
35 (b) When a bill or any specific appropriation of a general
36 appropriation bill has been vetoed, the governor shall transmit
37 signed objections thereto to the house in which the bill
38 originated if in session. If that house is not in session, the
39 governor shall file them with the custodian of state records,
40 who shall lay them before that house at its next regular or
41 special session, whichever occurs first, and they shall be
42 entered on its journal. If the originating house votes to
43 reenact re-enact a vetoed measure, whether in a regular or
44 special session, and the other house does not consider or fails
45 to reenact re-enact the vetoed measure, no further consideration
46 by either house at any subsequent session may be taken. If a
47 vetoed measure is presented at a special session and the
48 originating house does not consider it, the measure will be
49 available for consideration at any intervening special session
50 and until the end of the next regular session.
51 (c) If each house shall, by a two-thirds vote, reenacts re
52 enact the bill or reinstates reinstate the vetoed specific
53 appropriation of a general appropriation bill, the vote of each
54 member voting shall be entered on the respective journals, and
55 the bill shall become law or the specific appropriation
56 reinstated, the veto notwithstanding.
57 (d) A vetoed specific appropriation originating from the
58 general revenue fund, immediately upon being vetoed by the
59 governor, shall be transferred to the budget stabilization fund,
60 and the amount transferred may not be used in calculating the
61 principal balance limitation specified for the budget
62 stabilization fund in section 19(g) of this article. If the
63 vetoed specific appropriation is reinstated by the legislature,
64 the amount transferred to the budget stabilization fund shall be
65 returned to the general revenue fund for expenditure in
66 accordance with the specific appropriation.
67 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
68 placed on the ballot:
69 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
70 ARTICLE III, SECTION 8
71 TRANSFER OF VETOED APPROPRIATIONS TO THE BUDGET
72 STABILIZATION FUND.—Proposing an amendment to the State
73 Constitution to require that any specific appropriation
74 originating from the General Revenue Fund and vetoed by the
75 Governor be transferred to the Budget Stabilization Fund. The
76 amount transferred may not be used in calculating the fund’s
77 principal balance limitation. If the Legislature overrides the
78 veto, the amount transferred shall be returned to the General
79 Revenue Fund for expenditure in accordance with the specific
80 appropriation.