OFFiCE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Ronarable PO RO Chamborm, Chairman
Revenue and T8xatlan COmw&ttee
tlouaeof RsprsaantatlVom
Austin, Texoa
Dew Mr. Ohamberrr Oplalon ao. 04R9n
A
rte: ConmtltutlonalIty cif nk lpnrO-
Tour request ?or
matter la am tollora~
669 e Warned at t.he Regular
CounoiY 3 &,deolan?d to be a *joint gotemmenta) agency of thla
the pther atatem which OOOper8te With 3t.O (SeO.9)
ens or this set forthin
Cowiaaion are Seo-
tlon 4 of th?-Aettcand comprlme wholesome Raremental objeo-
tirea-
The Aot I tselt earr3ed no apnro7viatifm, and so Par
RI) re are adriwd, there has never been mr Rpmcsriatlon made
to ce8rry ntrt It* purwses.
There are, of Cfwrs09 certnin con&i tutI.nnaY fnhihl-
tfono govepnln~ the approwlation of muhlic ?oner hy t.ho rerzl?r-
honorable 1. Il. Chambers - page 1
lature. Eiret of there in importanoe Is found In Seotlon 44
of Artfale III, forbidding any ‘grant, by approprlatlon or
otherwise, any amount of money out of the treaarry of the
State, to my lndlridoal , on B olalm, real or pretended,
rhen the same shall not hate been provided for by pre-
existing lawOm
next, of oourse, there la the familiar Seotlon 0
of Artlole TIII deolarlngr ‘lo money rhall be drawn from
the tre8aury but in purouanoe of mpeoifio apDronrlatlonm
made by ‘la w, l l l.’NOW, Senate Bill 110.187 la a etrtu-
tory enaotment entirely auutfiolentrltbln ltaelt to oonstl-
tute pre-exiatlnp IaT for an appropriation to oarry out the
purposes therein outlined.
Since a oopy of the proposed appropri8tlon bill djd
not accomrany the request Por opinion , this Department la not
attevntlnx to pass on any quemtlon oi' the mafiialenc~ of the
bill itself.
Oi course, any approprlatloa made in this connection
would hare to comply with the requirement of apeoifionea~ of'
purpose, but there is nothing different in this respect from
other ordinary appropriation bllla~
mstinp thst what we have amid rjll answer the ln-
qulry In your mind, no are
Very truly yours
ATTORWY CEXERAL OF TEXAS
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