COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	office; and such bill, when and as passed	ation bill. The governor or a person
	by both Houses, shall be a law immediately	designated by him shall have the right to ap-
	without further action by the Governor.	pear and testify with respect to these bills.
	(7) The Governor and such representa- tives of the executive departments, boards, officers and commissions of the State ex- pending 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 appear and be heard with respect to any Budget Bill during the consideration thereof, and to answer inquiries relative thereto.	Section 6.15. Supplementary Appropriations. Any other appropriation shall be embod- ied in a supplementary appropriation bill, the purpose or purposes of which shall be clearly defined therein. In a regular session a supplementary appropriation bill may be passed by either house, but shall not be final- ly passed by both houses until the budget bill has been enacted. In a special session a supplementary appropriation bill may be
		considered and enacted at any time. Except
	(8) Supplementary Appropriation Bill.	with regard to capital projects submitted by
	Either House may consider other appro-	the governor, a supplementary appropriation
	priations but both houses shall not finally	bill shall provide the revenue necessary to
	act upon such appropriations until after	pay the appropriation by a tax, direct or in-
	the Budget Bill has been finally acted upon	direct, to be levied and collected as pre-
	by both Houses, and no such other appro-	scribed therein.
	priation shall be valid except in accordance with the provisions following: (a) Every	See Section 6.13, Enactment of Budget Bill,
	such appropriation shall be embodied in a	p. 40.
	separate bill limited to some single work,	See Section 433, Information from Adminis-
	object or purpose therein stated and called	trative Officers, p. 19.
	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;
	(e) 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 Appro-
	priation Bill shall be presented 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 con-
	strued 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 provided
	in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitu-
	tion, 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 Constitution of the United States.
	(10) If the Budget Bill shall not have
	been finally acted upon by the Legislature
	three days before the expiration of its
	regular session, the Governor may, and it

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