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• ; Members to Hear Appropriation Bill.

The Columbia City Council is preparing to fund eight downtown surveillance cameras more than a year after voters approved them. The cameras and all the other equipment would cost about $75,000. The city council in 2009 set aside two-thirds of that, and the Downtown Community Improvement District recently agreed to put up the rest, $25,000.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• May 02, 2011

• General appropriation bill - Enactment

• Arkansas Constitution

• Restrictions on general appropriation bill

• Alabama Constitution

• After Rants v. Vilsack: An Update on Item-Veto Law in Iowa and Elsewhere

Iowa gave its Governor limited item-veto power via a constitutional amendment in 1968. Since then, a half-dozen Iowa Supreme Court cases have clarified the meaning and scope of the amendment, which allows the Iowa Governor to item veto only "items" within "appropriation bills." In Rants v. Vilsack, decided in June 2004, defining "appropriation bill" again proved to be a complex task. This Note discusses the Rants case and analyzes its outcome. First, this Note argues that the decision comports with precedent and separation of powers principles at a cursory level, and therefore was an appropriate and foreseeable resolution to the case. Second, this Note observes that underlying separation of powers issues persist. To address these issues, Iowa should consider novel approaches from othe...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 91-1, November 2005

• Contents of general appropriation bill--Separate appropriation bills

• South Dakota Constitution

• American Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) today won bipartisan approval to add a provision to the Department of Energy appropriation bill that requires the agency to compile data on its purchases of foreign made goods - with the aim of providing American manufacturers with information they need to compete as suppliers to the government. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110323/DC70526LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• June 15, 2011

• Funding for Shawnee Warfare Center Included in Federal Defense Appropriation Bill

Funding for a proposed Urban Warfare Analysis Center in Shawnee is included in the defense appropriation bill approved by a U.S. House committee Tuesday. The center would have 100 jobs with an average salary of more than $70,000, said U.S. Rep. Ernest J. Istook, R-Okla. The bill includes $5 million for the center.

• The Journal Record
• June 16, 2005

• Subject of bill in title; appropriation bills

• New Mexico Constitution

• Are We in This Together?

WE DODGED another shutdown but only until Nov. 18. That's when the next temporary bill to keep the government going runs out. House Republicans want more cuts as their price for another stopgap spending bill. Among other items, they're demanding major cuts in a nutrition program for low-income women and children. The appropriation bill the House passed June 16 would deny benefits to more than 700,000 eligible low-income women and young children next year.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• October 03, 2011

• $18m Appropriation Bill Would Fund Oregon Water Projects

Almost $18 million for Oregon Ports, wetlands, and reservoirs was approved by a U.S. Senate appropriations committee for a list of water and energy projects. The appropriations bill will now go to the full Senate for approval, and then to the president. Several of the projects on the list are located in the southern Willamette Valley and coastal region. A study of enhancements and restoration projects on Amazon and Cedar creeks, near Eugene, would be given $350,000.

• Daily Journal of Commerce
• July 31, 2008