CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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REFERENDA
First Consideration of Constitutional Amendments
To publication time, none of the joint resolutions passed by the 2007 Legislature had approved a constitutional amendment on first consideration.
Second Consideration of Constitutional Amendments
Article V, Section 10 (1) (c)
Prohibiting partial vetoes from creating new sentences.
[2007 SJR-5]JR-26
Constitutional Amendments— April 1, 2008, Election
One question submitting an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution for ratification was on the April 1, 2008, statewide election ballot. The number of votes cast for or against the question, shown below, was copied from the official canvass certified by the chairperson of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board on May 5, 2008. The amendment was ratified by a majority of the electors voting on the question.
Question 1 was placed on the ballot by 2007 Senate Jt.Res-5 (2007 Enrolled Jt.Res-26). The question concerned prohibiting partial vetoes from creating new sentences.
Question 1: "Partial veto. Shall section 10 (1) (c) of
article V of the constitution be amended to prohibit the governor, in exercising his or her partial veto authority, from creating a new sentence by combining parts of two or more sentences of the enrolled bill?" [2007 SJR-5] [JR-26]
( Yes: 575,582 — No: 239,613 )
Ratified Amendments
This part of the Numerical Listing of Sections Affected by Wisconsin Acts shows the full current text of each section of the Wisconsin Constitution that was created or changed through an amendment validly ratified by the voters of Wisconsin since the publication of the 2005-06 Wisconsin Statutes. Amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution become "effective at the time the chairperson of the board or the chairperson's designee certifies that the amendment or referendum question is approved." [Sec. 7.70 (3) (h), Wis. Stats.]
Article V
Executive
Governor to approve or veto bills; proceedings on veto. Section 10. [As created or amended April 2008]
(1) (c) In approving an appropriation bill in part, the governor may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of the enrolled bill, and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of 2 or more sentences of the enrolled bill.
