REFERENCE TITLE: continuing appropriation budget; enactment; timeframe

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

HCR 2038

Introduced by

Representative Livingston

A Concurrent Resolution

proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Arizona; amending article IV, part 2, section 20, Constitution of Arizona; relating to appropriation bills.

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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring:

1. Article IV, part 2, section 20, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:

CONST20. Appropriation bills

Section 20. A. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the different departments of the this state, for state institutions, for public schools,  and for interest on the public debt. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.

B. On or before the forty-fifth day of each regular legislative session, the legislature shall enact a general appropriation bill for the next fiscal year that appropriates at least the same amount for the different departments of this state, for state institutions, for public schools and for interest on the public debt as was appropriated in the general appropriation bill for the current fiscal year, adjusted for:

1. Inflation and enrollment growth as required by law.

2. The removal of onetime expenditures.CONST

2. The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.