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General Assembly should have additional power to increase
items in the governor's budget, the committee feels that
this exception would have to be rteconsidered.
Bills proposing amendments to the Constitution
are excepted from the governor's veto because under the
present Constitution they can only be passed by the
affirmative vote of three-fifths of all members of each
house of the General Assembly. This is the same extra-
ordinary vote prescribed for legislative override by sec-
tion 4.17.- Under the present Constitution the Court of
Appeals has decided that proposed amendments to the Consti"
tution are not subject to gubernatorial veto.
Section 4.15, Item Veto:
This section empowers the governor to strike
out or reduce any item in a supplementary appropriation bi:.l.
"Supplementary appropriation bill" is used as a term of
art intended to have the same meaning as the term has under
Article 3, section 52(8) of the present Constitution. This
section clarifies the language of Article 11, section 17
of the present Constitution which does not make clear that
the governor can reduce items in supplementary appropriation