3.4 - BILLS -- APPROVAL -- PASSAGE OVER VETO.
3.4 BILLS -- APPROVAL -- PASSAGE OVER VETO.
If the governor approves a bill, the governor shall sign and date
it; if the governor returns it with objections and it afterwards
passes as provided in the Constitution, a certificate, signed by the
presiding officer of each house in the following form, shall be
endorsed thereon or attached thereto: "This bill (or this item of an
appropriation bill, as the case may be), having been returned by the
governor, with objections, to the house in which it originated, and,
after reconsideration, having again passed both houses by yeas and
nays by a vote of two-thirds of the members of each house, has become
a law this ... day of ........".
An "appropriation bill" means a bill which has as its primary
purpose the making of appropriations of money from the public
treasury. Section History: Early Form
[C51, § 16, 17; R60, § 19, 20; C73, § 28, 29; C97, § 32; C24, 27,
31, 35, 39, § 50; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
81, § 3.4] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 2011
Iowa Constitution, Art. III, § 16