Notes on 48 U.S.C. § 1575 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 48 U.S.C. § 1575 : US Code - Notes

(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, Sec. 9, 68 Stat. 501; Pub. L. 90-496,
Secs. 2, 3, Aug. 23, 1968, 82 Stat. 837; Pub. L. 95-134, title III,
Sec. 301(b), Oct. 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 1163; Pub. L. 95-348, Sec.
4(c)(1), Aug. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 490; Pub. L. 96-470, title II,
Sec. 206(d), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2244; Pub. L. 106-364, Sec. 2,
Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1408.)
AMENDMENTS
2000 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-364 amended first sentence
generally. Prior to amendment, first sentence read as follows: "The
quorum of the legislature shall consist of eight of its members."
1980 - Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 96-470 substituted provision
requiring a listing of all laws enacted by the legislature each
year be transmitted with the annual report to Congress required by
section 1591 of this title for provision requiring copies of all
laws enacted by the legislature be transmitted within 15 days of
their enactment by the Governor to the Secretary of the Interior
and by the Secretary annually to Congress.
1978 - Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95-348 inserted provision authorizing
the Virgin Islands Legislature to determine other dates on which
the fiscal year shall commence.
1977 - Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95-134 inserted ", unless the
legislature, after reconsideration upon motion of a member thereof,
passes such items, parts, or portions so objected to by a vote of
two-thirds of all the members of the legislature" after "shall not
take effect".
1968 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90-496, Sec. 2, increased the quorum
requirement from seven to eight members.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 90-496, Sec. 3, inserted requirement that
when a bill is returned by the Governor to the legislature, a
motion of a member of the legislature is necessary for the
legislature to reconsider the bill, and substituted provisions that
if, after reconsideration by the legislature, two-thirds of all the
members of the legislature pass a bill returned by the Governor, it
shall be a law for provisions that if, after reconsideration by the
legislature, two-thirds of all the members of the legislature agree
to pass the bill, it shall be presented anew to the Governor for
his approval, provisions that if the Governor does not approve the
bill, the bill shall be sent to the President of the United States
for his approval, provisions that if the President disapproves the
bill, the bill shall be returned to the Governor, stating the
President's disapproval, and it shall not be a law, and provisions
that if the President neither approves nor disapproves the bill
within 90 days after it was sent to him by the Governor, the bill
shall be a law as if the President had signed it.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1968 AMENDMENT
Section 2 of Pub. L. 90-496 provided that the amendment made by
that section is effective on date of enactment of Pub. L. 90-496,
which was approved Aug. 23, 1968.
Amendment of provisions of section necessary to authorize the
holding of an election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on Nov.
3, 1970, effective Jan. 1, 1970, and all other amendments of
provisions of section, unless otherwise expressly provided by Pub.
L. 90-496, effective Jan. 4, 1971, see section 16 of Pub. L. 90-
496, set out as a note under section 1591 of this title.