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Section VI-11: Approval or veto of bills - Passage over veto - Failure to return bill.

  Every bill which shall have passed the Senate and House of
Representatives, and every resolution requiring the assent of
both branches of the Legislature, shall, before it becomes a law,
be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shall sign it; if
not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which
it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large
in the Journal and proceed to reconsider it.  If, after such
reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected to that house
shall agree to pass the bill or joint resolution, it shall be
sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which
it shall likewise be reconsidered; and, if approved by two-thirds
of the members elected to that house, it shall become a law,
notwithstanding the objections of the Governor.  In all such
cases, the vote in both houses shall be determined by yeas and
nays, and the names of the members voting shall be entered on the
Journal of each house respectively.  If any bill or resolution
shall not be returned by the Governor within five days (Sundays
excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same
shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the
Legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in
which case it shall not become a law without the approval of the
Governor.  No bill shall become a law after the final adjournment
of the Legislature, unless approved by the Governor within
fifteen days after such adjournment.

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