Section 15. No bill may become law unless it passes two readings in the Legislature on separate days. No bill may pass final reading unless printed copies of the bill in the form to be passed have been made available to the Senators. Resolutions may be adopted upon a single reading in the Legislature.
Section 16. A bill passed by the Legislature shall be certified by the Speaker and the Clerk of the Legislature and thereupon be presented to the Governor. If the Governor approves the bill, he shall sign it and the bill becomes law. The final passage of a bill may not occur less than thirty days prior to the end of the term of the Legislature.
The Governor may veto any specific item or items in any bill which appropriates money for specific purposes by striking out or reducing the item or items, but he may veto other bills only as a whole. If the Governor vetoes any bill, item or items, he shall return the bill with his objections to the Legislature.
The Governor has thirty days to consider a bill presented to him, and the bill becomes law on the thirtieth day if it is neither signed nor returned on or before that day.
Resolutions directed to the Governor shall be answered in writing not later than thirty days after transmitted. If the Governor is requested to take action, the answer shall include a progress statement or the reasons why the action is not feasible.
(Amended by 1995 Con. Con.)
Section 17. Upon receipt of a veto message from the Governor, the Legislature may reconsider the vetoed bill, or the item or items vetoed, and again vote upon the bill, the item or items. The vetoed bill, item or items, become law if approved by a vote with four-fifths of the Senators on one reading. If, upon receipt of a veto message from the Governor, the Legislature is not in session or recess, the Legislature may reconsider the vetoed bill, item or items, in the next regular or special session. A vetoed bill may be amended to meet the objections of the Governor and, if so amended and passed upon one reading, it shall again be presented to the Governor, and becomes law only if signed within ten days after presentation.
(Amended by 1995 Con. Con.)
Section 18. The Governor shall have the laws published in both the Kosraean and English languages within sixty days after they become laws. Resolutions shall be published in both the Kosraean and English languages within sixty days of their adoption by the Legislature. Laws and resolutions so published shall be distributed to public officials and offered for sale to the public at the actual cost of publication. In the event of a conflict between the English language version of a law and the Kosraean language translation of the law, the English language version is controlling.
