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Constitutional Provisions Relating to the Appropriations Process  
From Article IV - Legislative Branch:
Section 1 - Legislative power
Section 22 - Bills
Section 24 - Laws; object, title, amendments changing purpose
Section 26 - Bills; printing, possession, reading, vote on passage
Section 27 - Laws; effective date
Section 30 - Appropriations; local or private purposes
Section 31 - General appropration bills; priority, statement of estimated revenue
Section 32 - Laws imposing taxes
Section 33 - Bills passed; approval by governor or veto, reconsideration by legislature
Section 34 - Bills; referendum
From Article V - Executive Branch:
Section 1 - Executive power
Section 2 - Principal departments
Section 18 - Budget; general and deficiency appropriation bills
Section 19 - Disapproval of items in appropriation bills
Section 20 - Reductions in expenditures
From Article IX - Finance and Taxation:
Section 17 - Payments from state treasury
Section 23 - Financial records; statement of revenues and expenditures
Section 26 - Limitation on taxes; revenue limit; refunding or transferring excess revenues; exceptions to revenue limitation; adjustment of state revenue and spending limits
Section 27 - Exceeding revenue limit; conditions
Section 28 - Limitation on expenses of state government
Section 29 - State financing of activities or services required of local government by state law
Section 30 - Reduction of state spending paid to units of local government
The 1963 Michigan Constitution:
Michigan Constitution of 1963 (complete document)
 
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