Sentence examples for general appropriation from inspiring English sources

The New Jersey Constitution explicitly says, "The Legislature shall not, in any manner, create in any fiscal year a debt or debts, liability or liabilities … [that] exceed at any time one per centum of the total amount appropriated by the general appropriation law".

But what the House and Senate quickly passed was a general appropriation, not a line-by-line allocation of how the $40 billion would be spent.

The Senate was weighing Henry Clay's proposal for raising taxes and the House was debating a general appropriations bill.

The latest round of aid to the Contras was included in the general appropriations bill for fiscall 1988.

The Philippine constitution allows the president to "augment any item in the general appropriations law…from savings in other items", bypassing the usual appropriations process.The Supreme Court was unimpressed.

By William Finnegan The New Yorker, January 11 , 1988P. 23 The latest round of aid to the Contras was included in the general appropriations bill for fiscall 1988.

Should the Senate fail to amend House Bill 1, the general appropriations bill for the next biennium, Medicaid reimbursement rates for all providers in Texas would be reduced by 10 percent.

Among the sharpest areas of disagreement are whether to split the Food and Drug Administration into two agencies and whether to finance increased safety inspections through fees on industry or through general appropriations.

This was done in secret and attached to a general appropriations bill.

This pay raise proposal was submitted as an amendment to the government's general appropriations bill.

Furthermore, the 2013-14 GenerAppropriationsons Act increased K-12 public school funding by $1.2 billion including a minimum of $480 million in salary increases for instructional personnel based on performance.