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COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY v. LAMM

No. 85SA70.

738 P.2d 1156 (1987)

The COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The Honorable Richard D. LAMM, Governor of the State of Colorado, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied July 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip G. Dufford, Gregory A. Ruegsegger, Edward D. White, Welborn, Dufford & Brown, and Douglas G. Brown, Rebecca C. Lennahan, William A. Hobbs, Colorado Legislative Drafting Office, Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Denver, for defendant-appellant.

DUBOFSKY, Justice.

The Governor of Colorado appeals the Denver district court decision declaring that the Colorado General Assembly has the authority to direct state expenditure of federal block grant monies and that the governor's vetoes of headnotes that included the federal funds in the general appropriations bill (the "long bill") in 1982, 1983, and 1984 violated the doctrine of separation of powers. We determine that the expenditure of the funds is within the...

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