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Article: Split court upholds 1996 state budget
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- Courier-News (Elgin, IL)
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- July 2, 1999
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Split court upholds 1996 state budget zB1 By Christopher Wills THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD -- State officials breathed a little easier Thursday after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld an important budget bill that had been ruled unconstitutional.
A Cook County judge overturned the law, which helped implement the 1996 state budget and involved issues from tobacco taxes to vocational training. The judge said the law violated the rule that legislation must be limited to a single subject.
That decision raised the possibility of legal challenges to budgets from other years and to practically every action they authorized.
Attorney General Jim Ryan's office warned of "a total ...