Proposition Summary

Senate Constitutional Amendment 15. Amends section 34 of Article IV of constitution. Creates state budget board, consisting of board of control, state controller, lieutenant governor, to ascertain needs of state offices, departments, and institutions for each biannual period and report to legislature budget thereof to be introduced in general appropriation bill and in omnibus appropriation bill carrying special items for improvements and betterments; budget board member to sit with each house of legislature when considering same; any other bill appropriating money to contain but one appropriation item and for single and certain purposes expressed therein.

Proposition Number

15

Year

1918

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 96820; A: 27.0; N: 261311; B: 73.0

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Senate Constitutional Amendment

For Author

W. F. Chandler, State Senator Twenty-sixth District; Frank H. Benson, State Senator Twenty-seventh District

Against Author

Joseph A. Rominger, State Senator Thirty-third District

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