Drug-sentencing repeal has to get to Carcieri before he can veto it
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For those of you wondering when the governor will make good on his threat to veto, for the second year in a row, a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum jail sentences for drug crimes, it may be awhile. The Constitution gives the governor six days (not including Sundays) after a bill has cleared the General Assembly to veto it, or it automatically becomes law without his signature. But there is a catch. The governor can’t veto a bill until it reaches his desk. And House leaders – in keeping with their own legislative tradition – have decided to hold on to the sentencing-repeal bill, introduced by Sen Harold Metts, D-Providence, that cleared their chamber last week, until the Senate passes a duplicate introduced on the House side by Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-Providence. “Then both bills will be transmitted at the same time to the governor,’’ House spokesman Larry Berman explained. -- Katherine Gregg, Journal State House bureau 
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