Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AJR 112

Relating to: prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (first consideration).

Constitutional amendments — First consideration Governor Taxation

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Adopted, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This proposed constitutional amendment, proposed to the 2023 legislature on

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

exercising his or her partial veto power over an appropriation bill, from creating or

increasing or authorizing the creation or increase of any tax or fee.

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. Ever

s, 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 the amendment is in

addition to 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.

Votes

Assembly: Report adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 8, Noes 5

Passed 8–5 Feb 14, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: ADOPTION

Passed 64–34 Feb 20, 2024 official source full page

Aye · 64

Nay · 34

Not voting · 1

LaKeshia Myers (12)

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 7, 2024 official source full page