In Re Interrogatories by the Colorado State Senate

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• holding that in order for there to be state debt in the constitutional sense, “one legislature, in effect, must obligate a future legislature to appropriate funds to discharge the debt created by the first legislature”
• holding that H.B. 1247 did not constitute a debt in violation of Colorado Constitution Article XI, Section 3, which limits the state debt, because it did not pledge future state revenues nor did it create an obligation payable from general-purpose tax revenues
• holding that H.B. 1247 did not constitute a debt in violation of Colorado Constitution Article XI, Section 3, which limits the state debt, because it did not pledge future state revenues nor did it create an obligation payable from general-purpose tax revenues

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