North Dakota Special Legislative Session to Consider Vetoed Bills Amendment (2020)
| North Dakota Special Legislative Session to Consider Vetoed Bills Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic State legislatures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The North Dakota Special Legislative Session to Consider Vetoed Bills Amendment was not on the ballot in North Dakota as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.[1]
This amendment would have required the legislature to convene for a special session to consider items or bills vetoed by the governor after the legislature's adjournment and establishes that the days spent on the special veto consideration session would not be counted toward the session length limit of 80 days.[2]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article IV, North Dakota Constitution
The measure would have amended section seven of Article IV of the state constitution.[2]
The full text of the proposed constitutional changes is available here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the North Dakota Constitution
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a simple majority vote is required in both the North Dakota State Senate and the North Dakota House of Representatives.
This amendment was introduced as House Concurrent Resolution 3006 on January 3, 2019. The state House approved it in a vote of 79 to 10, with five absent or not voting, on March 4, 2019. The Senate did not approve the measure before the legislature adjourned its 2019 session.[1]
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State of North Dakota Bismarck (capital) |
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