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the General Assembly should by rule permit
bills to continue beyond the life of the
session in which they are introduced.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Willis, only
one more question. Delegate Hanson's time
has expired.
DELEGATE WILLIS: I have two ques-
tions. Maybe I can put them together as
one.
(Laughter.)
You say the legislature could override
this veto within ten days, but suppose the
legislature were not in session ? Would it
be necessary for them to come back into
special session for this purpose? I know
you allowed this, but it is both awkward
and expensive to operate in that manner.
T,HE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: The way the pro-
posal is written, the technical answer to
your question is yes. The practical answer,
however, is that by requiring that the
budget be enacted by the 80th clay this
would give the General Assembly at least
an additional ten days before its date of
adjournment. By that time the veto mes-
sage should be returned. If it needs to
stay in session an additional day or so to
handle this problem, it can do so.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Mr. Chairman, I
wish to offer an amendment to section
6.07. The amendment is in the course of
preparation.
THE CHAIRMAN: This is an amend-
ment to amendment No. 2?
DELEGATE ADKINS: Yes, an amend-
ment to amendment No. 2. The substance
of the amendment would be to strike out
in line 16 the word "estimate," and in line
17 the word "revenues," and substitute in
their place the words "total budget ex-
penditures," so that the sentence would
then read, "Total appropriations included
in the budget bill as enacted by the Gen-
eral Assembly shall not exceed the total
budget expenditures submitted by the gov-
ernor."
THE CHAIRMAN: Before considering it
further, the Chair would ask Delegate Han-
son whether he would be disposed to accept
the amendment.
DELEGATE HANSON: I would be dis-
posed to accept Delegate Adkins' amend-
ment, if none of my co-sponsors has any
objections.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Are all the seconders
of the amendment in the room, and does
anybody object to the modification of the
amendment in the manner suggested?
The suggested amendment is to change
lines 16 and 18 so that they would read
". . . the General Assembly shall not ex-
ceed the total budget expenditures sub-
mitted by the governor/'
Is that correct, Delegate Adkins ?
DELEGATE ADKINS: My proposed lan-
guage was "the total budget expenditures."
THE CHAIRMAN: "total budget expend-
itures submitted by the governor."
Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: Point of inquiry.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE JAMES:— to Delegate Ad-
kins.
Is this not in effect eliminating use of
surpluses for any purposes of expenditure ?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: That is my hope,
Delegate James. I think it would be cat-
astrophic to permit the General Assembly
to have a little bit of budgeted surplus to
play with. It is my hope that this language
will prevent that.
THE CHAIRMAN: Do any other spon-
sors object to the modification ?
For what purpose does Delegate Storm
rise ?
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman, I
am riot one of the sponsors. If they had
asked me, I would have been.
1 would object, if I may. If I may not,
I will sit down.
THE CHAIRMAN: I do not think you
have the right to object.
(Laughter.)
The amendment is modified by the spon-
sors so that it would read in lines 16 and
17 ". . . General Assembly shall not ex-
ceed the total budget expenditures sub-
mitted by the governor."
Delegate Storm, of course you have the
right to offer an amendment that would
take it back to the previous language or
any other language you should so desire.
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman, it
suits me to go right ahead and vote on this.
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