Article III
this State and the debts secured thereby, in the
County or City where such property is situated.
SEC. 52."* (1) The General Assembly shall not
appropriate any money out of the Treasury ex-
cept in accordance with the provisions of this sec-
tion.
(2) Every appropriation bill shall be either a
Budget Bill, or a Supplementary Appropriation
Bill, as hereinafter provided.
(3)" On the third Wednesday in January in
each year, (except in the case of a newly elected
Governor, and then not later than ten days after
the convening of the General Assembly), unless
such time shall be extended by the General As-
sembly, the Governor shall submit to the General
Assembly a Budget for the next ensuing fiscal
year. Each Budget shall contain a complete plan
of proposed expenditures and estimated revenues
fur said fiscal year and shall show the estimated
surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of the
preceding fiscal year. Accompanying each Budget
shall be a statement showing: (a) the revenues
and expenditures for the preceding fiscal year; (b)
the current assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus
or deficit of the State; (c) the debts and funds of
the State; (d) an estimate of the State's financial
condition as of the beginning and end of the pre-
ceding fiscal year; (e) any explanation the Gover-
nor may desire to make as to the important
features of the Budget and any suggestions as to
methods for reduction or increase of the State's
revenue.
(4)^ Each Budget shall embrace an estimate of
all appropriations in such form and detail as the
Governor shall determine or as may be prescribed
by law, as follows: (a) for the General Assembly
as certified to the Governor in the manner herein-
after provided; (b) for the Executive Department;
(c) for the Judiciary Department, as provided by
law, certified by the Comptroller; (d) to pay and
discharge the principal and interest of the debt of
the State in conformity with Section 34 of Article
3 of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in pur-
suance thereof; (e) for the salaries payable by the
State and under the Constitution and laws of the
State; (f) for the establishment and maintenance
throughout the State of a thorough and efficient
" Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1947, ratified No-
vember 2,1948,
" Thus amended by Chapter 161, Acts of 1964, ratified No-
vember 3,1964.
™ Thus amended by Chapter 20, Acts of 1952, ratified Novem-
ber 4,1952.

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system of public schools in conformity with
Article 8 of the Constitution and with the laws of
the State; (g) for such other purposes as are set
forth in the Constitution or laws of the State.
(f)"" "The Governor shall deliver to the presid-
ing officer of each House the Budget and a bill
for all the proposed appropriations of the Budget
classified and in such form and detail as he shall
determine or as may be prescribed by law; and
the presiding officer of each House shall promptly
cause said bill to be introduced therein, and such
bill shall be known as the "Budget Bill." The
Governor may, with the consent of the General
Assembly, before final action thereon by the Gen-
eral Assembly, amend or supplement said Budget
to correct an oversight, provide funds contingent
on passage of pending legislation or, in case of an
emergency, by delivering such an amendment or
supplement to the presiding officers of both
Houses; and such amendment or supplement
shall thereby become a part of said Budget Bill as
an addition to the items of said bill or as a modi-
fication of or a substitute for any item of said bill
such amendment or supplement may affect.
(5a)^ The Budget and the Budget Bill as sub-
mitted by the Governor to the General Assembly
shall have a figure for the total of all proposed
appropriations and a figure for the total of all
estimated revenues available to pay the appro-
priations, and the figure for total proposed
appropriations shall not exceed the figure for to-
tal estimated revenues. Neither the Governor in
submitting an amendment or supplement to the
Budget Bill nor the General Assembly in
amending the Budget Bill shall thereby cause the
figure for total proposed appropriations to exceed
the figure for total estimated revenues, including
any revisions, and in the Budget Bill as enacted
the figure for total estimated revenues always
shall be equal to or exceed the figure for total
appropriations.
(6)^ The General Assembly shall not amend
the Budget Bill so as to affect either the
obligations of the State under Section 34 of Arti-
cle 3 of the Constitution, or the provisions made
by the laws of the State for the establishment and
maintenance of a system of public schools or the
payment of any salaries required to be paid by
" Thus amended by Chapter 20, Acts of 1952, ratified Novem-
ber 4,1952.
" As added by Chapter 745, Acts of 1973, ratified November
5,1974.
" Thus amended by Chapter 373, Acts of 1972, ratified No-
vember 7,1972.