Art. III, Sec. IX, Para. III. General appropriations bill.

State financing and investment generally, § 50-17-20 et seq.

1976 Constitution.

Art. III, Sec. X, Para. IV.

Purpose of appropriation control.

— The purpose of this and other paragraphs on appropriation control is to end the practice of allocating or earmarking particular taxes for the use by any specific department, and to require the General Assembly to appropriate from the general fund specific amounts for each fiscal year for the support of each department or agency. Gregory v. Hamilton, 215 Ga. 735, 113 S.E.2d 395 (1960) (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. IX, Para. III). Cited in Irons v. Harrison, 185 Ga. 244, 194 S.E. 749 (1937); Atlanta Fin. Co. v. Brown, 187 Ga. 729, 2 S.E.2d 415 (1939); Schaffer v. Oxford, 102 Ga. App. 710, 117 S.E.2d 637 (1960).

It is exclusive function of legislaform of a general appropriations bill.

1979 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 79-18. Discretion lies with the state agency to determine which fiscal ular contract. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-163. When agency may contract in one fiscal year for services in the next. — A state agency may contract with a party in one fiscal year for services to be performed in the next fiscal year so long as the funds to meet the obligations of the contract were existing in the agency’s appropriation and were unobligated prior to the execution of the contract. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-163. ments to a general appropriations Act for a prior fiscal year. 1974 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 74-53 (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. IX, Para. III). Appropriations Act may not alter responsibilities or powers of state eral law. 1979 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 79-46. Appropriation Act does no more or no less than authorize maximum amount of funds to be spent for specified objects; it does not mandate such expenditures. 1973 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 73-80. Establishment of obligation to pay funds into state treasury is matter of substantive law, and under this paragraph substantive laws cannot be contained in the General Appropriations Act. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-118 (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. IX, Para. III). Actual power of a public agency to tivities or purposes must be pursuant to a general law, not an appropriations Act. 1973 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 73-80. Effect of paragraph on agency

year’s funds were obligated by partic-This paragraph excludes amendagency which are derived from genspend public money for particular acspending authorization.

This paragraph prohibits an appropriations Act from doing anything other than authorizing a state agency to spend up to a maximum amount for a purpose or function which the agency is permitted or required by general law. 1977 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 77-87.

Payment of membership dues.

Departments, institutions, and agencies can pay dues and membership fees in state and national organizations from appropriated funds. 1968 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 68-110.

Am. Jur. 2d.

63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Funds, § 44.

ALR.

Particularity of specification of purpose required in appropriation bill, 20 ALR 981.