{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-31","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. IV, § 31","heading":"General appropriation bills; priority, statement of estimated revenue.","body":"Sec. 31.\n\nThe general appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal period covering items set forth in the budget shall be passed or rejected in either house of the legislature before that house passes any appropriation bill for items not in the budget except bills supplementing appropriations for the current fiscal year's operation. Any bill requiring an appropriation to carry out its purpose shall be considered an appropriation bill. One of the general appropriation bills as passed by the legislature shall contain an itemized statement of estimated revenue by major source in each operating fund for the ensuing fiscal period, the total of which shall not be less than the total of all appropriations made from each fund in the general appropriation bills as passed.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article IV"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20IV%20%C2%A7%2031","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"b21d1e434a95b11bd88090bd92e1b39123cfa9e09b3b7c640021b89d91e33ef2","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-30","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-32","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}