AJR 109

This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2009 legislature on

first consideration, amends the Wisconsin Constitution to prohibit the governor, in

exercising his or her partial veto power over an appropriations bill, from partially

vetoing parts of bill sections of an enrolled bill without rejecting the entire bill

section. Currently, in exercising the partial veto power, the governor is limited only

insofar as 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. 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.