Legal Opinion
Rush v. Ray
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided April 20, 1983No. 67574PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
This declaratory judgment action was brought by a state senator seeking a declaration that the governor had acted illegally by exercising the gubernatorial item veto power (Art. Ill, § 16, Iowa Constitution, amend. 27 (1968)) to veto portions of five appropriations bills. The vetoed portion of each bill prohibited the transfer of the appropriated funds between departments of state government. The transfers would otherwise be authorized by Iowa Code § 8.39 (1981). We previously ruled on the governor’s item veto power in Welden v. Ray, 229 N.W.2d 706 (Iowa 1975), and in State ex…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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