Appropriation Act

A separate bill, the Appropriations Act, must become law before the money can be spent.

For example, every year there is one or more Appropriation Acts.

This project is authorized by the Appropriations Act of 1991.

In 1909, a legislative money appropriation act was passed.

The fiscal year in which an Appropriation Act is enacted.

The current appropriation act contains restrictive language, introduced last September, on obscenity.

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 had two significant sections.

The Appropriation Act is normally passed about the beginning of August.

An Appropriation Act normally becomes spent on the conclusion of the financial year to which it relates.

Obligations are limited to $15 billion unless otherwise authorized by the Appropriations Acts.

Temporary laws such as appropriations acts are excluded.

But the language of the appropriation act for Lower Manhattan confers broader discretion.

Legislative budgetary control is maintained over the state agencies at the line item level as identified in appropriation acts.

The College had to close for the second time when its appropriation was omitted from the 1950-51 Appropriations Act.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act passed the House with a vote of 296-121.

Sessions' legislation was accepted in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2005.

The Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 provided the new department its first funding.

Three projects from the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act.

Two items in the Department of Interior Appropriations Act.

Once appropriation acts and any other budgetary legislation, such as revenue or reconciliation measures, become law, they are executed by the appropriate federal agencies.

The last major legislation affecting veterans' preference occurred in the form of the Defense Appropriations act of 1997.

The 1851 Indian Appropriations Act allocated funds to move western tribes onto reservations.

The six bills contained within the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 are:

Restrictive language was included last year in the 1990 Interior Appropriations Act, but that legislation is soon to expire.

I am concerned about spending-whether through the Appropriations Act or the Tax Code.