The Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the LTO’s use of P341.7 million unspent funds from the agency’s 2016 budget to augment the amount appropriated in 2017 for its P836-million driver’s license card project with five-year validity.
The LTO-Bids and Awards Committee, in November 2016, conducted a pre-procurement conference for the 2017 driver’s license card project. Using the balance of P341,713,000 from the 2016 General Appropriations Act and its proposed budget of P528,793,000 in the 2017 National Expenditure Program, the LTO-BAC pegged the Approved Budget for the Contract at P836,000,000.
“[T]he use of the Land Transportation Office of the amount appropriated under ‘Issuance of driver’s license and permits’ in the General Appropriations Act of 2016 to supplement the amount appropriated under ‘Issuance of driver’s license and permits’ in the General Appropriations Act of2017 is not unconstitutional,” the SC said in its ruling.
The SC said that the 2016 GAA authorized the use of appropriations in 2016 for 2017 and pointed out that Section 65 “is an example of ‘existing or continuing appropriations’ or ‘appropriations which have been previously enacted by Congress and which continue to remain valid as an appropriation authority for the expenditure of public funds.
“Care should be taken to examine the relevant provisions of law, especially when, as in this case, the concerned GAA contained a continuing appropriation clause,” it added. INQSubscribe to our daily newsletter
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