expenditures shall be limited to funds available therefor as
shown in the budget.

Section 6.10. Mandatory Appropriations.

The estimates of appropriations for the legislative branch cer-
tified by the presiding officer of each house, and for the judicial
branch certified by the judge designated by the chief judge of
the Court of Appeals to certify the judicial branch budget, shall
be transmitted to the governor in the form and at the time that
he shall direct. To the extent that appropriations for the legisla-
tive and judicial branches and for state support of public school
systems are required by law, the estimates therefor shall be
included in the budget without revision.

Section 6.11. Presentation of Budget Bill.

At the time the governor submits the budget to the General
Assembly, he shall deliver to the presiding officer of each house
a budget bill for all the proposed appropriations of the budget,
classified and in the form and detail that he shall determine or
that the General Assembly may prescribe by law. Each presiding
officer shall promptly cause the budget bill to be introduced.
Before final action on the budget bill by the General Assembly,
the governor may amend or supplement the bill to correct an
oversight, to appropriate funds contingent on passage of pend-
ing legislation, or to provide for an emergency. An amendment
or a supplement shall be delivered to the presiding officer of each
house, and it shall become an addition, substitute, or modification
of the budget bill or any item thereof. Each amendment or sup-
plement shall be accompanied by a statement by the governor
explaining the reasons therefor.

Section 6.12. Amendment of Budget Bill.

The General Assembly may amend the budget bill by increas-
ing any item relating to the legislative or judicial branches, or
by reducing or striking out any item except the appropriation
of sufficient funds to provide for the timely payment of interest
upon and installments of principal of all state indebtedness and

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