Sentence examples for change the appropriations from inspiring English sources

Those amendments gave the governor the power to write and submit appropriations bills as well as others needed to carry out the budget and severely limited the Legislature's ability to change the appropriations.

In 1993, the state's highest court ruled that lawmakers could change the numbers in appropriations bills, but not the descriptions of an item's purpose.

Two things are at issue: whether the Legislature can change the descriptions of appropriations, and whether the governor's veto powers include the ability to cross out language from a bill without vetoing the entire bill.

The ruling said lawmakers could change the numbers in appropriation bills, not descriptions of an item's purpose.

But by 2002 the mood had changed, and the appropriations have continued, financing losses of over $1 billion a year.

Justice Malone also upheld previous court decisions that the Legislature can only strike out an entire appropriation, reduce its amount or add a new appropriation, but may not change the description.

These decisions have, in effect, changed the way education appropriations are made, moving decision making from legislatures to the courts.

And that, they argue, fundamentally changes the rules of appropriation.

In 2001, Governor Pataki sued the Legislature after it passed a stripped-down version of his budget that changed the language of his appropriations.

Law and tradition dictate that if an administration deviates in its spending from the program it presented to Congress, it has to report the changes to the appropriations committees.

Republican leaders say the rule increases accountability in government and played down concerns — some within their own party — that it will usher in broad changes to the appropriations process.