Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

’- 84; r/ OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN Hon. W. A. Darir, K. 0. state negirtrar Stat0 board ot Realth Aurtln, Torar Dear 251rs Vlraee adrlre me r0und1~ b00t ug sxpenaeslnour- and oprratloaof of Xealth, there appearr a dlrlslon styled *BQrom of Vital Ststistlo8,a under uhloh VadOU8 ralart item8 are provided. R d lXpll80 1tem8, other t!I8Sl for 88hriO8, et0 tboro provid- ad, but at the end of the approprlatloo for the Department OS Rmlth, appearVetiOU8 ltomr arailablo for expense8 of the Witlr8 D@Qatkaent Of Ha8lth. Bon. U. A. Da-la, Pago 8. The Oeneral Rider to the Departmental Appropriation Bill ~rOVid.8: l(b) The appropriation8herein provided ir. to b r OOIl8trU~da8 the Wrimm 8~8 to b. lppmprlatbd to and for the seiorel ptarpoaes named herein, aad th e aWUXIt8 lM intended to oover aed 8hall oover th8 lntlre OOst Of the rerpootita it088 and the same rhall not be aup- plomented from any other 8ouMe; and, exoapt aa otherwire prodded, a0 other erpendlturer shall be made, nor shall any other obllgationr bo ln- ourr8d by any departash of thir State, ...- *lUO@pt a8 OthOrWlee provided, ihoneler, by Vtiua Of the prOti8iOn8 Of thi8 AOt, lta8 am to be paid out oi fee8, noelpts, opeolal fund8 or other fund8 ltallable iOr \I80by a do- partmoot It 10 tho lntentlon of tho Leglala- tar0 to ilmlt espradlturei out OS rrld feo8, reoeiptr, rpeoi81 fund8 or other lallabla Sund8, to the parposer and la the amount8 lfealzod here- in, and lt 18 80 provided. Y, however, tbo mount ol the ieeL, rooelptr, apeolal or other arallablo fund8 herein referred to are more than 8UfflOieat to pay the iteai8herein deeignated to bb paid therefrom, tho department to whioh the 8aid tee8, r.eoslpt8,8peOial fUnd8 or othor arai1ablo fund8 are appropriated may, if neo- e88ary t0 adequately pertom the rUnOtiOn8 of 8UOh department, UBO aay portion oi uald 8-0 plU8 feel, reoeiptr, speolal iPnd8 or dthor arall- able tundr,* by obtainlag the peralsaion of the Llmltatlon of Payment8 Board In the mannor pro- vided therein. %?I0~rreOt.# the86 pr~i8iOn8'li8 t0 iut the. amount of money to be spent for pwtloular Item ior rhloh the b@8&tU?8 haa made 8mOif10 protlsfoa to tzlo amount provldod therefor In the departmentalappropriation bill, to deny the authority to.rupplemsatany prtloQlar Item for rhlohprovlaion ha8 been made, froa any 8oUro0, and to llmlt the authority to the department to lnour any other expenditures to euoh addlflonal lxpeadlture8 a8 are 'other- tire p~orldaP ior in the departmental appropriatloa bill. The departmental appropriation bill, in reotioa 3 or tbo general rider, provide8 that,=ln th8 Went the Boa. K. A. Datlr, Fag0 3. 8tatUtO8 Of the Stat0 Of Texas provide that any 8WWlt8, fOO8 or rUn68hereIn appropriated (are) to be pald out 0s iooal or 8peOial fee8 or funds, that the oama be 80 paid Out of raid looal or mpeolal teeo or funds lnetead Of bo- lng paid out ot the Geaor81 Betenue T~nd.~ .(parenthetloal lnrrrtlon ourr). 8. 8.~613, however, doe8 not Oontmaplate the ilnaaolag or iuoh rork~exolu8Irely irozasuch rpeolal fund, but, in our oplnlon, 18 Intended t'opmmIt.th8 lp- plloatloa 0s the 8peOial run6 t0mra the ooat of operating thlr gmrrnmental tervIoe, with the deflolenoy, it any, to bo eupplled from the Goneral Yund. It r0iiowcithat th8 8peOial tund 18 to be 8pplied to the pcr)msnt Of the Item8 provided in the departmntal @pproprlatlonbill for tho BUrOaU Of Vital 8tatietiO+ It I8 Only in tho lteat that ln.aotual rurplur exist8 in suob ruti, otor and above the 8um neoosnary t0 pey'8uOh items provldod iOr the fIaOal year, that, with the pewIs8lon of the Llaita- tion Of Paymenta Board, the lxoe88 or rurplu8 ma$ bo u8ed for WO8884rf lXJWK4888Oi 8uOh Bureau, lqoludlng th0 U- ployment of lddltlonal help, full or part time. TOUT8 very truly ATl'OElfEf GERBRAL O? TEXAS Jgi&$Ga BY B. 1. talrshlld li8818tMt 0 APPRPRILD 'ATTORNEY GJUiERALOr'TSX4S COMMITXL %f&f-