Volume 109 - Issue 6
Note: The Cloying Use of Unallotment: Curbing Executive Branch Appropriation Reductions During Fiscal Emergencies
By Tyler J. Siewert. Full text here. To ensure the perpetuation of balanced budgets, which are legal and practical requirements in forty-nine states, many state legislatures bestow upon the executive branch broad powers to reduce appropriations through unallotment statutes. The Note accentuates two dire legal inefficiencies plaguing an ample number of these laws. First, many statutes…
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