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Legislative Management directs committee to draft post‑session veto procedures after conflicting AG and governor interpretations
Summary
Legislative Management voted to direct the Legislative Procedures and Arrangements Committee to draft statutory procedures for handling post‑session vetoes and to report back within 90 days, after members raised concerns about an Attorney General opinion and the Office of Management and Budget treating parts of it differently.
Legislative Management voted to direct the Legislative Procedures and Arrangements Committee to draft statutory procedures for handling post‑session vetoes and to report back within 90 days.
Members said the step responds to an Attorney General opinion that, in their view, left ambiguity about the scope and effect of item vetoes, and to subsequent actions by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that the committee said appeared to follow part of that opinion but not all of it.
The committee’s action, moved by Leader Lefort and seconded by Senator Hogan, instructs the Legislative Procedures and Arrangements Committee (LPA) to develop a plan for a future statutory “veto day,” supplemental…
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