SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (Three-fifths of all the Members elected to each
of the two Houses concurring), That the following section
be and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to
Section 17 of Article II of the Constitution of Maryland,
title "Executive Department", the same, if adopted by the
legally qualified voters of the State, as herein provided, to
become a part of the Constitution of Maryland •.

17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and
encroachments of the Legislative Department upon the co-
ordinate Executive and Judicial Departments, every Bill
which shall have passed the House of Delegates, and the
Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the
Governor of the State; if he approves he shall sign it, but if
not he shall return it with his objections to the House in
which it originated, which House shall enter the objections
at large on its Journal and proceed to reconsider the Bill;
if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths of the members
elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall be sent with
the objections to the other House, by which it shall likewise
be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the mem-
bers elected to that House it shall become a law; but in all
such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by
yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and
against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each
House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within six days (Sundays excepted), after it shall
have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like
manner as if he signed it, unless the General Assembly shall,
by adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall
not be a law.

[Any bill which is vetoed by the Governor following the
adjournment of the General Assembly, or any bill which
fails to become a law by reason of not having been signed
by the Governor following the adjournment of the General
Assembly, shall be returned to the House in which it orig-
inated, immediately after said House shall have organized
at the next regular or special session of the General Assem-
bly. Said bill may then be reconsidered according to the
procedure specified hereinabove. If the bill is passed over
the veto of the Governor, it shall take effect on June I fol-
lowing, unless the bill is an emergency measure to take
effect when passed] NO SUCH VETOED BILL SHALL BE
RETURNED TO THE LEGISLATURE WHEN A NEW
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND HAS BEEN
ELECTED AND SWORN SINCE THE PASSAGE OF
THE VETOED BILL.