Opinion No. (1997)

REQUESTED BY: Senator Floyd P. Vrtiska Nebraska State Legislature You have requested an opinion from this office regarding the extent to which the Legislature is limited in exercising its duties under Article VII, Section 1 of the Nebraska Constitution. Specifically, the question you have posed is whether "Article VII or any other section of the Nebraska Constitution limit[s] the Legislature's power to establish the duties and obligations of local school boards or to restrict their authority to set budgets or levy taxes to provide the financial support for those budgets." As we have not been…