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get Bill as an addition to the items of said bill or as a
modification of or a substitute for any item of said bill
such amendment or supplement may affect.

(5a)⁷⁸ The Budget and the Budget Bill as submitted
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 appropriations, and the figure for total pro-
posed appropriations shall not exceed the figure for to-
tal estimated revenues. Neither the Governor in submit-
ting 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 appro-
priations to exceed the figure for total estimated reve-
nues, 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 appropri-
ations.

(6)⁷⁹ The General Assembly shall not amend the
Budget Bill so as to affect either the obligations of the
State under Section 34 of Article 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 the Constitution thereof; and the General As-
sembly may amend the bill by increasing or diminishing
the items therein relating to the General Assembly, and
by increasing or diminishing the items therein relating
to the judiciary, but except as hereinbefore specified,
may not alter 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 de-
creased during his term of office; and such bill, when
and as passed by both Houses, shall be a law immedi-
ately without further action by the Governor.

(7) The Governor and such representatives of the ex-
ecutive departments, boards, officers and commissions
of the State expending or applying for State's moneys,
as have been designated by the Governor for this pur-
pose, shall have the right, and when requested by either
House of the General Assembly, it shall be their duty
to appear and be heard with respect to any Budget Bill
during the consideration thereof, and to answer inquir-
ies relative thereto.

(8)⁸⁰ Supplementary Appropriation Bill. Either
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 fol-
lowing: (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 Supplementa-
ry Appropriation Bill; (b) Each Supplementary Appro-
priation Bill shall provide the revenue necessary to pay
the appropriation thereby made by a tax, direct or indi-

Article III

rect, 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 pas-
sage; (d) Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall
be presented to the Governor of the State as provided
in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution and there-
after all the provisions of said section shall apply.

(9) Nothing in this section shall be construed as -pre-
venting the General Assembly from passing at any time,
in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of Arti-
cle 3 of the Constitution and subject to the Governor's
power of approval as provided in Section 17 of Article
2 of the Constitution, 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 Consti-
tution of the United States.

(10)⁸¹ If the Budget Bill shall not have been finally
acted upon by the Legislature seven days before the ex-
piration 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.

(II)⁸² 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, includ-
ing herein all executive departments, 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 infor-
mation, in such form and at such times as he shall di-
rect, 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 Budget and which was
enacted before July 1 of the fiscal year prior thereto
shall provide a level of funding not less than that pre-
scribed in the law. The estimates for the Legislative De-
partment, certified by the presiding officer of each
House, of the Judiciary, as pi-ovided by law, certified by
the Comptroller, and for the public schools, as provided
by law, shall be transmitted to the Governor, in such
form and at such times as he shall direct, and shall be
included in the Budget without revision.

(12)⁸³ The Governor may provide for public hearings
on all estimates and may require the attendance at such
hearings of representatives of all agencies, and for all in-
stitutions applying for State moneys. After such public
hearings he may, in his discretion, revise all estimates
except those for the legislative and judiciary depart-
ments, 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