Clinton v. Taylor

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The first fourteen sections of Act 922 of 1983 contain an appropriation for the judicial retirement system. Sections 15 and 16 of the same act change Cleveland County from one judicial district to another. The appellee filed suit seeking to have Sections 15 and 16 of the act declared in violation of article 5, § 30 of the Constitution of Arkansas. That constitutional provision is as follows:

§ 30. General and special appropriations. — The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expense of the executive, legislative ánd…