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Legislative counsel reviews 'power of the purse' and key appropriation rules for JFAC
Summary
Legislative counsel explained the constitutional and statutory basis for legislative appropriations, the constitution’s item-veto and single‑subject requirements, and how conditions, limitations and restrictions attached to appropriations operate.
Elizabeth Bowen, legislative legal counsel for the Legislative Services Office, briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the constitutional and statutory basis for the legislature’s appropriation powers and practical limits on those powers.
Bowen said the legislature’s authority to appropriate funds flows from the Idaho Constitution and case law, and she noted key constraints the committee should keep in mind: (1) the balanced budget requirement (Article 7, section 11) that appropriations cannot…
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