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the proposed amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Chabot, do you yield to
a question?
DELEGATE CHABOT: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gleason.
DELEGATE GLEASON: What would be the situation i:'
a Governor notifies the Lieutenant Governor in writing that
he is temporarily unable to carry out the duties of his
office and there is need to have bills signed or vetoed.
Are you assuming that situation, that those bills will
automatically just become law, because the Governor is not
there to sign them himself, assume your amendment is carried.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE CHABOT: No. Under those circumstances'
Section 4.07 says that the Lieutenant Governor shall serve
as Acting Governor. We have made constitutional provisions
that for all purposes, except the purposes of putting into
play the recapture of the office by the Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor takes over the job. This, of course,
requires a writing. Section 4.U3 doesn't require anything,
presumeably just a word in passing would be sufficient to