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Legal overview: legislature’s appropriation powers and limits explained to JFAC
Summary
Legislative counsel reviewed constitutional and statutory foundations for the legislature’s appropriation authority, item‑veto limits, conditions on appropriations and JFAC’s statutory duties.
Elizabeth Bowen, legislative legal counsel with the Legislative Services Office, presented a review of the legislature’s appropriation authority, the constitutional framework and key statutes that guide how the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee and the legislature draft and constrain appropriation laws.
Bowen traced the authority for appropriations to the Idaho Constitution and U.S. constitutional principles, noting the legislature’s plenary power to appropriate money from the state treasury subject to constitutional limits. She cited Article 7, Section 13 of the Idaho Constitution: “money can be…
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