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Title
1. This Act shall be titled as the 'Overhusen Line-Item Veto Act'.

Amendments
2. Article I, Section 8 of the Fundamental Laws shall be amended to read as follows:

8. The Overhusen shall vote to pass or veto the legislation upon passage by the Underhusen.
      (a) The Overhusen may, by a two-thirds vote, veto one or more Sections or Articles of legislation passed by the Underhusen, with the intention of passing the remainder of the legislation.
      (b) Those individual Sections or Articles vetoed by the Overhusen will be returned to the Underhusen, upon which the Underhusen may either accept this veto, or vote to override this veto via the mechanisms outlined in Section 9 of this article.

3. A new Section, numbered Section 10, is to be added under Article I of the Fundamental Laws, which is to read as follows:

10. If the Underhusen does not carry out an override vote within 140 hours from when the Speaker of the Overhusen makes a declaration on the bill's passage or failure, whether the veto in question is line-item or otherwise, they shall be considered to have accepted the veto.
      (a) This shall be considered to apply to all legislation prior to the passing of this amendment.

4. All subsequent sections shall be renumbered accordingly.

Skrifa may vote aye, nay or abstain.

aye

Aye

Aye.

Nay. I don't see a clear and present need for the issue it's addressing. If there were more attempts by the UH to try and override a decision by the OH, I might have been game.

That said, this act has passed the Underhusen, and hereby passes to the OH. @Wuufu, here you go:

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[quote][b]Title[/b]
1. This Act shall be titled as the 'Overhusen Line-Item Veto Act'.

[b]Amendments[/b]
2. Article I, Section 8 of the Fundamental Laws shall be amended to read as follows:
[quote]8. The Overhusen shall vote to pass or veto the legislation upon passage by the Underhusen.
      (a) The Overhusen may, by a two-thirds vote, veto one or more Sections or Articles of legislation passed by the Underhusen, with the intention of passing the remainder of the legislation.
      (b) Those individual Sections or Articles vetoed by the Overhusen will be returned to the Underhusen, upon which the Underhusen may either accept this veto, or vote to override this veto via the mechanisms outlined in Section 9 of this article.[/quote]

3. A new Section, numbered Section 10, is to be added under Article I of the Fundamental Laws, which is to read as follows:
[quote]10. If the Underhusen does not carry out an override vote within 140 hours from when the Speaker of the Overhusen makes a declaration on the bill's passage or failure, whether the veto in question is line-item or otherwise, they shall be considered to have accepted the veto.
      (a) This shall be considered to apply to all legislation prior to the passing of this amendment.[/quote]

4. All subsequent sections shall be renumbered accordingly.[/quote]

I'll vote Nay for the record.