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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Ind. Law - 'Where does the Indiana Constitution say that?'

I thought we'd put this old saw to bed! But the Indianapolis Star's Mary Beth Schneider writes today on the paper's front page:

Will lawmakers revolt against Gov. Mitch Daniels' privatization plans? Will cigarettes cost more? Will the Republican governor and the Democratic House speaker get along?

Those questions and others will take center stage Monday when the 115th session of the Indiana General Assembly convenes.

The session, which ends April 29, will address education, property taxes, health care and many other issues that affect every Hoosier -- their schools, their jobs and their wallets.

But only one job is a must-do, mandated by the constitution: passing a new two-year state budget.

And to ask yet again: "Where in the constitution does it say that?"

The ILB posed this question a number of times in 2005, when variations of the supposed mandate, including Pat Bauer's "That’s really our only constitutional duty,” were repeated, without question, in a number of reporters' stories.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 7, 2007 10:02 AM
Posted to Indiana Law