Hospital & Healthsystem Ass'n v. Department of Public Welfare

OPINION

Justice BAER.

This is a direct appeal from the Commonwealth Court’s en banc Opinion and Order granting Appellees’ preliminary objections and dismissing Appellants’ Petition for Review in the Nature of a Complaint in Equity and Declaratory Judgment. Appellants’ complaint sought to enjoin certain provisions of the General Appropriations Act of 2002 1 (2002 GAA) as violative of Article III, Section 11 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which mandates that a “general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the…