Bobo v. Kulongoski

This case presents primarily two questions. The first is whether, by retroactively transferring Medicaid Upper Payment Limit Funds (Medicaid funds) out of the General Fund, Senate Bill (SB) 963 (2001) reduced the amount of money that the General Fund received for the 1999-2001 biennium and also the amount of a statutory tax refund, popularly known as the “kicker.” The second is whether, if that were the effect of SB 963, the Oregon Constitution required that that bill originate in the House of Representatives and pass by a three-fifths vote. We hold that the legislature understood that SB 963…