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the Constitution thereof; and the General
Assembly may amend the bill by increasing or
diminishing the items therein relating to the
General Assembly, and by increasing or dimin-
ishing the items therein relating to the judiciary,
but except as hereinbefore specified, may not al-
ter the said bill except to strike out or reduce
items therein, provided, however, that the salary
or compensation of any public officer shall not
be decreased during his term of office; and such
bill, when and as passed by both Houses, shall
be a law immediately without further action by
the Governor.
(7) The Governor and such representatives of
the executive departments, boards, officers and
commissions of the State expending or applying
for State's moneys, as have been designated by
the Governor for this purpose, shall have the
right, and when requested by either House of the
General Assembly, it shall be their duty to ap-
pear and be heard with respect to any Budget Bill
during the consideration thereof, and to answer
inquiries relative thereto.
(8)^ Supplementary Appropriation Bill. Ei-
ther House may consider other appropriations
but both Houses shall not finally act upon such
appropriations until after the Budget Bill has
been finally acted upon by both Houses, and no
such other appropriation shall be valid except in
accordance with the provisions following: (a)
Every such appropriation shall be embodied in a
separate bill limited to some single work, object
or purpose therein stated and called herein a
Supplementary Appropriation Bill; (b) Each
Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall provide
the revenue necessary to pay the appropriation
thereby made by a tax, direct or indirect, to be
levied and collected as shall be directed in said
bill; (c) No Supplementary Appropriation Bill
shall become a law unless it be passed in each
House by a vote of a majority of the whole
number of the members elected, and the yeas
and nays recorded on its final passage; (d) Each
Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be pres-
ented to the Governor of the State as provided
in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution
and thereafter all the provisions of said section
shall apply.
(9) Nothing in this section shall be construed
as preventing the General Assembly from passing
at any time, in accordance with the provisions of
Section 28 of Article 3 of the Constitution and
subject to the Governor's power of approval as
"° Thus amended by Chapter 416, Acts of 1966, ratified No-
vember 8,1966.

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provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Consti-
tution, an appropriation bill to provide for the
payment of any obligation of the State within the
protection of Section 10 of Article 1 of the Con-
stitution of the United States.
(10)" If the Budget Bill shall not have been fi-
nally acted upon by the Legislature seven days
before the expiration of the regular session, the
Governor shall issue a proclamation extending
the session for some further period as may, in his
judgment, be necessary for the passage of such
bill; but no other matter than such bill shall be
considered during such extended session except a
provision for the cost thereof.
(11)" The Governor for the purpose of making
up his Budget shall have the power, and it shall
be his duty, to require from the proper State
officials, including herein all executive depart-
ments, all executive and administrative offices,
bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies,
expending or supervising the expenditure of, and
all institutions applying for State moneys and
appropriations, such itemized estimates and other
information, in such form and at such times as he
shall direct, except that an estimate for a program
required to be funded by a law which will be in
effect during the fiscal year covered by the Bud-
get and which was enacted before July 1 of the
fiscal year prior thereto shall provide a level of
funding not less than that prescribed in the law.
The estimates for the Legislative Department, cer-
tified by the presiding officer of each House, of
the Judiciary, as provided by law, certified by the
Comptroller, and for the public schools, as pro-
vided by law, shall be transmitted to the Gover-
nor, in such form and at such times as he shall
direct, and shall be included in the Budget with-
out revision.
(12)" The Governor may provide for public
hearings on all estimates and may require the at-
tendance at such hearings of representatives of all
agencies, and for all institutions applying for
State moneys. After such public hearings he may,
in his discretion, revise all estimates except those
for the legislative and judiciary departments, and
for the public schools, as provided by law, and
except that he may not reduce an estimate for a
program below a level of funding prescribed by a
law which will be in effect during the fiscal year
" Thus amended by Chapter 576, Acts of 1970, ratified No-
vember 3,1970.
" Thus amended by Chapter 971, Acts of 1978, ratified No-
vember 7,1978.
" Thus amended by Chapter 971, Acts of 1978, ratified No-
vember 7,1978.