Bill Text: MN SF2454 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Judicial authority to appropriate money or order governor, executive branch agencies or legislature to spend money prohibition
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-14 - Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety [SF2454 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-SF2454-Introduced.html
1.2relating to state government operations; prohibiting courts from appropriating
1.3money or ordering the governor, executive branch agencies, or the legislature to
1.4spend money; requiring the commissioner of management and budget to reduce
1.5the appropriation to the judiciary in certain situations;proposing coding for new
1.6law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 1.
1.7BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.8 Section 1. [1.60] JUDICIAL AUTHORITY; FINANCIAL MATTERS.
1.9 Subdivision 1. Prohibitions. A court may not: (1) order the governor, an executive
1.10branch agency, or the legislature to spend money or to otherwise incur a financial
1.11obligation; or (2) appropriate money unless pursuant to an enacted law.
1.12 Subd. 2. Reduction in court budget; determination by commissioner of
1.13management and budget. If the commissioner of management and budget determines
1.14that money has been paid out of the state treasury as a result of a court order directing
1.15that money be spent to continue the operation of a state function in the absence of an
1.16appropriation, the commissioner shall reduce the current general fund operating budget
1.17appropriation to the court by the amount determined. If no operating budget for the court
1.18has been enacted, the commissioner shall make the specified reduction in the next enacted
1.19court budget.
1.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
1.3money or ordering the governor, executive branch agencies, or the legislature to
1.4spend money; requiring the commissioner of management and budget to reduce
1.5the appropriation to the judiciary in certain situations;proposing coding for new
1.6law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 1.
1.7BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.8 Section 1. [1.60] JUDICIAL AUTHORITY; FINANCIAL MATTERS.
1.9 Subdivision 1. Prohibitions. A court may not: (1) order the governor, an executive
1.10branch agency, or the legislature to spend money or to otherwise incur a financial
1.11obligation; or (2) appropriate money unless pursuant to an enacted law.
1.12 Subd. 2. Reduction in court budget; determination by commissioner of
1.13management and budget. If the commissioner of management and budget determines
1.14that money has been paid out of the state treasury as a result of a court order directing
1.15that money be spent to continue the operation of a state function in the absence of an
1.16appropriation, the commissioner shall reduce the current general fund operating budget
1.17appropriation to the court by the amount determined. If no operating budget for the court
1.18has been enacted, the commissioner shall make the specified reduction in the next enacted
1.19court budget.
1.20EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
