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shall not grant or authorize extra compensation to any publicofficer, agent, or contractor after the service has been renderedor the contract entered into.(b) All laws heretofore adopted under Article III, SectionVIII, Paragraph XII of the Constitution of 1976 in force andeffect on June 30, 1983, shall continue in force and effect andmay be amended if such amendments are consistent with theauthority granted to the General Assembly by such provisionsof said Constitution.SECTION Vll.IMPEACHMENTSParagraph I. Power to impeach. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power to vote impeachment chargesagainst any executive or judicial officer of this state or anymember of the General Assembly.Paragraph II. Trial of impeachments. The Senate shall havethe sole power to try impeachments. When sitting for thatpurpose, the Senators shall be on oath, or affirmation, and shallbe presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.Should the Chief Justice be disqualified, then the PresidingJustice shall preside. Should the Presiding Justice be disqualified, then the Senate shall select a Justice of the Supreme Courtto preside. No person shall be convicted without concurrence oftwo-thirds of the members to which the Senate is entitled.Paragraph III. Judgments in impeachment. In cases ofimpeachment, judgments shall not extend further than removalfrom office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office ofhonor, trust, or profit within this state or to receive a pensiontherefrom, but no such judgment shall relieve any party fromany criminal or civil liability.SECTION VIII.INSURANCE REGULATIONParagraph I. Regulation of insurance. Provision shall bemade by law for the regulation of insurance.Paragraph II. Issuance of licenses. Insurance licenses shallbe issued by the Commissioner of Insurance as required by law.SECTION IX.APPROPRIATIONSParagraph I. Public money, how drawn. No money shall bedrawn from the treasury except by appropriation made by law.Paragraph II. Preparation, submission, and enactments ofgeneral appropriations bill, (a) The Governor shall submit tothe General Assembly within five days after its convening inregular session each year a budget message and a budget report,accompanied by a draft of a general appropriations bill, in suchform and manner as may be prescribed by statute, which shallprovide for the appropriation of the funds necessary to operateall the various departments and agencies and to meet thecurrent expenses of the state for the next fiscal year.(b) The General Assembly shall annually appropriate thosestate and federal funds necessary to operate all the variousdepartments and agencies. To the extent that federal fundsreceived by the state for any program, project, activity, purpose, or expenditure are changed by federal authority or exceedthe amount or amounts appropriated in the general appropriations Act or supplementary appropriation Act or Acts, or arenot anticipated, such excess, changed or unanticipated federalfunds are hereby continually appropriated for the purposesauthorized and directed by the federal government in makingthe grant. In those instances where the conditions under whichthe federal funds have been made available do not provideotherwise, federal funds shall first be used to replace state fundsthat were appropriated to supplant federal funds in the samestate fiscal year. The fiscal year of the state shall commence onthe first day of July of each year and terminate on the thirtiethof June following.(c) The General Assembly shall by general law provide forthe regulation and management of the finance and fiscal administration of the state.Paragraph III. General appropriations bill. The generalappropriations bill shall embrace nothing except appropriations fixed by previous laws; the ordinary expenses of theexecutive, legislative, and judicial departments of the government; payment of the public debt and interest thereon; and forsupport of the public institutions and educational interests ofthe state. All other appropriations shall be made by separatebill, each embracing but one subject.Paragraph IV. General appropriations Act. (a) Eachgeneral appropriations Act, now of force or hereafter adoptedwith such amendments as are adopted from time to time, shallcontinue in force and effect for the next fiscal year after adoption and it shall then expire, except for the mandatory appropriations required by this Constitution and those required tomeet contractual obligations authorized by this Constitutionand the continued appropriation of federal grants.(b) The General Assembly shall not appropriate funds forany given fiscal year which, in aggregate, exceed a sum equal tothe amount of unappropriated surplus expected to haveaccrued in the state treasury at the beginning of the fiscal yeartogether with an amount not greater than the total treasuryreceipts from existing revenue sources anticipated to be collected in the fiscal year, less refunds, as estimated in the budgetreport and amendments thereto. Supplementary appropriations, if any, shall be made in the manner provided in Paragraph V of this section of the Constitution; but in no event shalla supplementary appropriations Act continue in force andeffect beyond the expiration of the general appropriations Actin effect when such supplementary appropriations Act wasadopted and approved.(c) All appropriated state funds, except for the mandatoryappropriations required by this Constitution, remaining unexpended and not contractually obligated at the expiration ofsuch general appropriations Act shall lapse.Paragraph V. Other or supplementary appropriations. Inaddition to the appropriations made by the general appropriations Act and amendments thereto, the General Assembly maymake additional appropriations by Acts, which shall be knownas supplementary appropriation Acts, provided no such supplementary appropriation shall be available unless there is anunappropriated surplus in the state treasury or the revenuenecessary to pay such appropriation shall have been providedby a tax laid for such purpose and collected into the generalfund of the state treasury. Neither house shall pass a supplementary appropriation bill until the general appropriations Actshall have been finally adopted by both houses and approvedby the Governor.Paragraph VI. Appropriations to be for specific sums.(a) Except as hereinafter provided, the appropriation for eachdepartment, officer, bureau, board, commission, agency, orinstitution for which appropriation is made shall be for aspecific sum of money; and no appropriation shall allocate toany object the proceeds of any particular tax or fund or a partor percentage thereof.(b) An amount equal to all money derived from motor fueltaxes received by the state in each of the immediately precedingfiscal years, less the amount of refunds, rebates, and collection