(DOWNLOAD) "Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania v. Dept of Public Welfare" by Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania v. Dept of Public Welfare
- Author : Court of Appeals Thirteenth District of Texas Corpus Christi
- Release Date : January 27, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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This is a direct appeal from the Commonwealth Courts en banc Opinion and Order granting Appellees preliminary objections and dismissing Appellants Petition for Review in the Nature of a Complaint in Equity and Declaratory Judgment. Appellants complaint sought to enjoin certain provisions of the General Appropriations Act of 2002 (2002 GAA) as violative of Article III, Section 11 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which mandates that a "general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, for the public debt and for public schools." As will be discussed in detail infra, Appellants asserted that because the 2002 GAA, a general appropriations bill, contained improper substantive language, it violated Article III, Section 11. The Commonwealth Court, in granting Appellees preliminary objections, concluded that the 2002 GAA did not contain substantive language in violation of Article III, Section 11. For the reasons that follow, we now reverse and remand.