{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-20","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. V, § 20","heading":"Reductions in expenditures.","body":"Sec. 20.\n\nNo appropriation shall be a mandate to spend. The governor, with the approval of the appropriating committees of the house and senate, shall reduce expenditures authorized by appropriations whenever it appears that actual revenues for a fiscal period will fall below the revenue estimates on which appropriations for that period were based. Reductions in expenditures shall be made in accordance with procedures prescribed by law. The governor may not reduce expenditures of the legislative and judicial branches or from funds constitutionally dedicated for specific purposes.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article V"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20V%20%C2%A7%2020","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"136decca4195b460293034c52a732fdeaf9d9c15c3ed14949a08cbd247a66594","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-2","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-v-21","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."}