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The next amendment will be Amendment
Y. The pages will please distribute Amend-
ment Y for yogurt.
Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: I do not be-
lieve that Amendment Y has a function at
this point. It is the one which was covered
by Delegate Case.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well, Amend-
ment No. 20 will be withdrawn.
Pages will please distribute Amendment
AM. This will be Amendment No. 21.
Amendment No. 21, Amendment AM.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 21
to Report No. S&D-18 by Delegates Gal-
lagher and Chabot: On page 15, section
3.20, Consideration of Bills, in line 35
strike out the words: 'Bills originating and insert in lieu thereof the words 'A
bill may originate' and in line 36 after the
word 'Assembly' add the word 'and'.
TPIE PRESIDENT: This amendment is
in lines 47 and 48 on page 14 of the
white copy.
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent and ladies and gentlemen of the Con-
vention —
THE PRESIDENT: Just a second. The
amendment was offered by Delegate Gal-
lagher and seconded by Delegate Chabot.
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: The prior
Constitution said a bill may be originated
in either house and it may be amended or
passed by the other. The Style Committee
changed the language to say bills origi-
nated in either house may be rejected,
passed or amended by the other. This is
subject to the interpretation that the two
houses by agreement could possibly divide
up between them the kinds of bills that
could originate in either house, thereby
limiting the power of either house to con-
sider and initiate any type of bill at the
present time.
The purpose of Amendment AM, No. 21,
which you have before you is to restore
the language to the prior constitutional
form which would guarantee that any kind
of bill could originate in either house.
Delegate Chabot was kind enough to call
this to our attention, and since this is more
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of a substantive change than a style
change we thought it more proper to offer
a style amendment.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any ques-
tion?
Thee question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 21 to Report S&D-18. A
vote Aye is a vote for the amendment. A
vote No is a vote against.
Cast your votes.
(WJicreupon, a roll call vote was taken.)
THE PRESIDENT: Has every delegate
voted?
Does any delegate desire to change his
vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 113 votes in the affirmative
and none in the negative, the motion
carries. The amendment is adopted.
Next is AD — Amendment AD. Delegate
Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: On Item 19
that we just agreed to, if one reads on to
line 24, it probably should read on the
green sheets, "No law or section of a law."
The "a" was left off in the green sheets
and it probably should be restored.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any objec-
tion to modifying Amendment No. 19 so as
to add in line 2 after 23 the numerals "24"
and — No, we cannot do that.
Is there any objection to modifying
Amendment No. 19 'to add at the end of
the amendment the following: to add on
line 24 after the word "of" the word "a."
If there is no objection, the modification
will be made.
Mr. Clerk, did you get the modification?
Amendment No. 22 is Amendment AD.
This amendment is in line 33 on page 20 of
the white copy. The Clerk will read the
amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 22
to Report S&D-18, by Delegate Penniman,
Chairman of the Committee on Style,
Drafting and Arrangement: On page 22,
section 4.15, Action on Bills by the Gover-
nor, in line 9 strike out the word 'of and
insert in lieu thereof the word 'after'.
THE PRESIDENT: The purpose of the
amendment is obvious, to make this read
"30 days after presentation."
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