WELSH v. BRANSTAD

No. 90-571.

470 N.W.2d 644 (1991)

Senator Joseph J. WELSH; Senator Bill Hutchins; Senator Thomas Mann, Jr.; Representative Thomas J. Jochum; Representative Bob Arnould; and Representative Donald D. Avenson, Appellees, v. Terry E. BRANSTAD, Governor of the State of Iowa in his Official Capacity, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Van Vooren and Maria Mihalakis Waterman of Lane & Waterman, Davenport, for appellant.

Brent R. Appel and Thomas W. Andrews of Dickinson, Throckmorton, Parker, Mannheimer & Raife, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

Considered en banc.


CARTER, Justice.

The Governor of Iowa has appealed from a judgment which invalidated the exercise of the item vetoes of portions of three appropriation bills enacted by the General Assembly. These item vetoes affected portions of 1989 Iowa Acts ch. 307, § 6(10); ch. 308, § 1(8); and ch. 319, § 19. In the discussion which follows, we will refer to these three bills as S.F. 363, § 6(10); S.F. 520, §...

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