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Legal counsel briefs JFAC on 'power of the purse' and limits on appropriation authority
Summary
Legislative legal counsel Elizabeth Bowen reviewed constitutional and statutory bases for the Legislature's appropriation authority, item veto limits, and the legal effect of conditions, limitations and restrictions attached to appropriations.
Elizabeth Bowen, legislative legal counsel for the Legislative Services Office, reviewed the legal foundations of the Legislature's appropriation authority and the constraints that apply when the Legislature directs how money may be spent.
"This is basically the legislature's power to control the finances of the state," Bowen said, describing the historical and constitutional roots of the legislature's appropriation authority and the concept commonly called the "power of the purse."
Bowen covered several legal points the committee must keep in mind when…
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