§ 4. Action on budget bills by legislature; effect thereof.

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§ 4. The legislature may not alter an appropriation bill submitted by

the governor except to strike out or reduce items therein, but it may

add thereto items of appropriation provided that such additions are

stated separately and distinctly from the original items of the bill and

refer each to a single object or purpose. None of the restrictions of

this section, however, shall apply to appropriations for the legislature

or judiciary.

Such an appropriation bill shall when passed by both houses be a law

immediately without further action by the governor, except that

appropriations for the legislature and judiciary and separate items

added to the governor's bills by the legislature shall be subject to

approval of the governor as provided in section 7 of article IV.