Legal Opinion
Colorado General Assembly v. Lamm
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided June 1, 1987No. 85SA70PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUBOFSKY, Justice.
The Governor of Colorado appeals the Denver district court decision declaring that the Colorado General Assembly has the authority to direct state expenditure of federal block grant monies and that the governor’s vetoes of headnotes that included the federal funds in the general appropriations bill (the “long bill”) in 1982, 1983, and 1984 violated the doctrine of separation of powers. We determine that the expenditure of the funds is within the governor’s executive power to make resource allocation decisions, with the exception of the portions of the block grants subject to…
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