HJRES 49
99th Congress
House
Economics and Public Finance
Appropriations
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Constitutional amendments
Item veto
Presidential powers
Presidents and Vice Presidents
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States allowing an item veto in appropriation bills.
Introduced: January 3, 1985
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 6, 1985
Referred to Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law.
Jan 3, 1985
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Jan 3, 1985
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Constitutional Amendment - Allows the President an item veto of appropriations bills. Requires the President, in signing such a bill, to designate the provisions disapproved and return the bill to the House in which it originated. Subjects such bills to the same proceedings as other bills disapproved by the President.
What's happening now
Referred to Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1