Assembly overrides five more vetoes

The Assembly voted Saturday to override five more vetoes by Gov. Jim Gibbons, bringing the total for that house to 13 including the major budget measures.

The five included AB458, Speaker Barbara Buckley's measure creating a rainy day fund to protect public education funding in bad economic times.

"It's incomprehensible to me the governor would veto this," she said."

Buckley said Gob. Jim Gibbons' veto message said it was because the bill didn't include stabilization funds for other areas of state government.

"That's because we did that in another bill," she said. "Ab165 creates a stabilization fund for all government accounts."

The vote was 36-5 with one member absent " easily beating the 28 votes needed for a two-thirds majority.

In addition, the Assembly voted to override Gibbons on AB25 which contained fee increases for DMV. The vote there was also well above the minimum two-thirds " 37-4.

They did the same with AB141 which established a recovery fund for people defrauded by mortgage brokers and others in the housing and lending industry " a 37-3 vote.

AB246, which contained new fees to support the creation of an apprentice hunting license for teens, was overridden on a 41-0 vote.

Finally, the Assembly overrode Gibbons' veto of AB463, which strictly limited the ability of state agencies to hire consultants " especially former or current state employees. The bill requires the legislative Interim Finance Committee to sign off on any consulting contracts. Again the vote was 41-0.

The Senate, meanwhile, was still working out deals needed on other legislation before holding a vote on remaining budget and other vetoed bills.

Both houses must reach a two-thirds majority to override the governor's veto of any legislation.

The Senate is planning to hold those votes today.