Appropriates and transfers $8,000,000 from the General Fund to the Legislative Legal Defense Fund in fiscal year 2016.

This bill appropriates $8 million from the General Fund and transfers it to the Legislative Legal Defense Fund in fiscal year 2016. The Legislative Legal Defense Fund is authorized in §67-451A and is for any necessary legal expenses of the Legislature as determined by the President Pro Tempore and the Speaker of the House. The Legislative Legal Defense Fund is continuously appropriated and since the creation of the fund in 2013 the Legislature has appropriated a total of $1,250,000.