Opinion No. (1985)

Dear Senator Dirck:

This letter is in response to your request for an opinion of this office asking whether in view of the legislative appropriation history of S.C.S.H.B. 1013, Eighty-Second General Assembly, the Department of Social Services had authority to utilize funds from C.C.S.H.B. 1011 for the purpose of relocation and movement of personnel from the Kansas City State Office Building or for the purpose of renovation of the office building.

It is our understanding that the appropriations to which you refer were in C.C.S.H.B. 1011, summarized in pertinent part as follows:

Section 11.100. To…