Constitution Section 201 — Bills reserved for consideration

Part VI — THE STATES — Legislative Procedure

Constitutional

Summary

When a Governor sends a Bill to the President for consideration, the President must either approve it or refuse to approve it. However, if the Bill is not a Money Bill, the President can instead ask the Governor to send it back to the state legislature with a message. The legislature must then reconsider the Bill within six months of receiving that message, and if they pass it again, with or without changes, it must be sent back to the President for a final decision.

Official Text

When a Bill is reserved by a Governor for the consideration of the President, the President shall declare either that he assents to the Bill or that he withholds assent therefrom:Provided that, where the Bill is not a Money Bill, the President may direct the Governor to return the Bill to the House or, as the case may be, the Houses of the Legislature of the State together with such a message as is mentioned in the first proviso to article 200 and, when a Bill is so returned, the House or Houses shall reconsider it accordingly within a period of six months from the date of receipt of such message and, if it is again passed by the House or Houses with or without amendment, it shall be presented again to the President for his consideration.