Case Information
*1 OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
State Board of Education
Austin, Texas
Dear Sire: Attention: Mr. Gap
for ~9l&24+3. .ylle have receiv ecember 8, 1942, whioh we quote, in part, a8
.., . . p&dea .balapoe wiser either of the above .al&PeatQns a$ the eid of ‘the first year of the biennium ‘ahal.3. ‘be tram&erred by order of the Joint Legidative Advisory Committee to any klloeation herein created and set upI’
, ,. *The Stata Beard of Bduoatlon hae been requested to order transtatQed the em or
~b,OOO out of one at t6s~ltams rsprasenting
6n unexpended balsnoe out of tke 6pproprla-
tlon ror the yenr~l941-48 to aupj~lmxmt end
lneroese for the paar 19423-4s tba ellcoatlon
of $i3,000 ~?Oi the pCrpose of smplogl~ en
auditor snd ior suah other end necessary ax-
penser lnclbmt to the duties of the Joint
Legislative kdvlsary Comittee (rhleh E&MM
hate'devolvsd upon tbt state Eacrd of 'Kddu-, OEtiOD;~yOUr UII te ~~&%.th& amunt expendable for tbe lm- OpilliODS O-4009 aud 0-47061, [810]
dleatsd purpawa fox the year 194E-43 the
aggrqptc r)um of 314,000. Article. XXX1 OS the rural eld blah (A&e 1945, 47th -_ Leg.., R.fL,:.Ch.~ 5&f, H. 8. 'artCr) provides es'~@limar ,_.~ Y%otion L 4pp+oi?riation.. Far tha .&r- poea of pmmotsng We 63qualixa~lon or idueation- al opportanltiaia sifsrded br’the State 01~‘lkw .. to .all~ enumara$sd aohoLlastlao witbln~ tkb St&s j-.6:. ,.. aa heraIW$gvlded, and for tha purgeso hsr6ln- ) above @et ootiT$hare is ltmeby 8ppropr1at%d out ; oi the General Revsntw Fund of the ,Otste o? Texas uet .othsnlffe appp3opfiatm3, t?re mm of ItIght Ml* lioni &ur Em+ed Forty-four Thousad, bne Wadred And Ninety Dollks ($8&4,190) for the ro%ol year '. eAC??inp & Utt k%l, 194& 8Ad -xi@& 'rilliCA, our F One snared and Uiniyty Fungrad eurtpfour m0u80na, Dolles (@X,4&&,190) for ths shhoal ymr ending :
State Board.oi Gduoation psga 3
Auguet 81, 1943; or 80 ‘ikmoh theraoi~ a8 may
3, to be allooeted and e~xpended under thi provielone of this Aot by the .?tata Super- 'intendett of Publlo lnatruotion tiirwi@h the' I?Irector of Epuqllaation in tha State r)ep&rt- moat oi.Etlu~atlon and under the auparvJsidn of the.bolnt Le~ialmtiva Advleory~%6uittae oraa&wl herein.
“sao. 8. s1100st10il; It is hera5.n speol- fiaal,lp pmvl:!ad that out of thB %XUQ .app,ra- prlete5 ?or eeah ~mho@l year or tha biesnlw ~.
the mm oi FOUF Zillion 'Three F?tm&sd and - Fifty ThchmmU Dollars (~4,330,000)~ ia'heraby set aaide for Salary
Twenty Thawand Dollara
sslmo1 TIiftlmg PPXaa
Thoucltmd end T*ent,y
eaplop$$iga~ auditor and ior seob dthar aad
ne~aa8ary etqaemaes 16ai&u~t tc the duties af.
tte sl3lnt Le@blttlrer ravirsry oaPnai*tQs. .soah au&itor ahall.hat rrroeivs ~~~~a.then.~me %bouC~~ send, Six IIundred Dollati (#$30!$) per year 0Ut~: of the am htwabr allocate4~'~-~~a.etlaitor s&ad,..
other authorlned e;aployesr shal& be appointad by ths aomlttaa and theti aaltirp and neaeSaWy *4 Btate Board of lk$ueation, Page 4
6xpeneoa ba paid on order of said 6omatittea , and el,l auoh amplogeos shall be under the direat mapervl8Lon Of sdld aom&V&WJ Or ftn order. &oh of tk,e above na:-m3 allooatlons Is for eaah leer oi the biennium.
*Any tineaended bslanae an&r either OS the above all4oatloita~ slidfthe-ilrst per of the biennium sball be trsnererfe~ order or the.soint'lapieletive Aaviaory corn7 to any elloaatlon b8rein areated and+ itt %t ?E.~ (Emphasis supplIed) .
In Opinion Ilo. O-4706 we aiQi8ad .~tb3 89ek Super+ tonCent of Publio Imdzuotlon that the ‘Evard Of Xduoation (Oplnlon LBo. O-4609) wad authorized un;lsr ,%+e .un&?r?ooraU .
p4rtlon of .Art~ale XIII to ~trsnafer an uxiesgended baleaae ti. either of the ~sevon~~lloditione~b tiny one of the other SIX allooations that i&.&hta.~ehow a deficit. In other word& ii.
at ,the enir .of .th+, iS.rnt gear. of ',the bhthw-t*~6~~we~ yet vallP olaims w~hlooh aitulC not be paid beoause uf insuiflsienoy 0t funds .in the psrtlotiar elloci+ion, then ~the unexpended b&anoe in another alio6atfon L?&@& be tren8fOrxot-b0 the ex- haunted alloaatlon so.t,hat kuoh~ol$$m ,bould 'w.pa% TQ~o?
~, ~in~;%hl~'was the ~~urp6Pe~~,:Sar~,inal~Qin~ the .&emoor@d--prod
Yourpa$-ask whether thq un8xpeodeil balanoe ii’5 one of tlm sllooation~u: ,... the yeat 1941-42 msy be traaaferred to the p. aeme ox another~'a&Mwtion ior the ywx 19IE4S, This 5s an matlrely Ubiferanli puecrtion, and ,one ,whioh, we think, 8hould be answered in the ne&its.
As we have xumtioned before, we believe that the pUr- pose of the provieion under aomideration ~(38 to provide a means whereby an alloaation, tbhe funds of whioh beoam oxhausteb before the end. oi the ffrst year of the biendtm, oould. be 8up~~lemrited. This .faat ir ehmn by the faat that tb ap?ro- prlatlon a@ ai?ooetlods are sat..up separataly f&r.oaah yeer .oi the bianniora.
.To tranefer the belanoe from any el.loocation for 1941- 48 to any of the alloaatlone ior 1942-45 gplpufd inorease the *5 State Board of Education, Es(re 5
amounty=approprlated for euoh year. You kill notion that &444,190, ia spsalfioally,ap:~jroprlated for eaoh ybar (Sea- tlon 1, Art1010 XIII). The etfeot of oarqlne the manby per iron one year to the next w:~ld bq to Inorea#e the appropriation above @,444,190; in view of the alear word8 of eppropriatlon used by the Leglalature, we are OOnVinOed that this was not Its intent.
The oapfion to the rural aid bill provided, In part, aa followsr 1
“An Aot provid5.n~ ior a'more eSCioient Pub- 110 Soho -1 System in Tsr‘rre; makln~( 8~ appropria- tion of f-t Ellllon, Four liundred Forty-four Thousand, tine Bunarea and EytieDollsn (88.1 444~190) for eaoh year of th b n&$&& snd~fj 1943 allocating the fund8 ao.appr~- Au st Sl pr ate&g s * *I' (&aphasia supplied). ff“ :
A aonoluslod other than the one Fe have reqol@d would neoessitete a ooit&leratlon o? the surriolenoy of the~o~pbion m Of bJ?tiOle 1x1 UndW s8OtiOll %UlStitUtiOn Of %X86. ~-6 never, ue~Nel.that the ~oaptlon' I s a alaar Lndlaatlcm tt@ :Sbe, Legi8lature did not intend for moneya to ba earr18$ ate* iron! the first year oftbb biennium to the secand,yeah
Tn rien of the foregoing you are respeotiull$ advlssd that the qnixpended belmnoe in the 194l-48 rural aid epppopria- tlon tiy~not be trankiferrod ;* th4 194%43.,spprop*tLoz& Iour qumtion ia, thereiere, answered ln the nqgative.
Yezy truly ydw8 ATT- GENEi?AL OX. TEM8 By George W. aparti (II) oEs*s APPWVED DEC 1r 1948
imdsterlb.~ Gerald 0. 3Aen.a 10)
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