Opinion ID: 2570810
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Administering the program

Text: The vetoed language did not specify how these three appropriations were to be used, and instead addressed staffing funded under separate appropriations. This language effectively administered ASMI's program because it limited the executive's exercise of discretion in staffing and locating executive-branch offices whose operations were funded by separate appropriations. Because this language did not specify how these three appropriations were to be spent, we do not need to decide here whether, as the council argues, the appropriation power gives the legislature authority to decide where executive-branch personnel will be located. Likewise, we need not decide whether, as the governor asserts, the appointment of executive officers is an executive function, [90] and whether the geographic location of particular levels of state officials is the type of close supervision of state government that is essentially executive in character. [91]