Colorado General Assembly v. Lamm

LOHR, Justice.

This case requires us to determine the constitutional validity of the governor’s vetoes of certain provisions in the general appropriation bill for fiscal year 1982 and in a supplemental appropriation bill for fiscal year 1981. We also are presented with the question of the constitutionality of the portions of the bills purportedly vetoed. The district court determined that the vetoes, which deleted legislative specifications of the revenue sources from which funding for certain appropriations was to be derived, did not relate to entire “items” and so were not within the scope…