Sec. 4-66. Powers and duties of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.
Sec. 4-66. Powers and duties of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.
The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall have the following functions
and powers: To keep on file information concerning the state's general accounts; to
furnish all accounting statements relating to the financial condition of the state as a
whole, to the condition and operation of state funds, to appropriations, to reserves and
to costs of operations; to furnish such statements as and when they are required for
administrative purposes and, at the end of each fiscal period, to prepare and publish
such financial statements and data as will convey to the General Assembly the essential
facts as to the financial condition, the revenues and expenditures and the costs of operations of the state government; to furnish to the State Comptroller on or before the twentieth day of each month cumulative monthly statements of revenues and expenditures to
the end of the last-completed month together with (1) a statement of estimated revenue
by source to the end of the fiscal year, at least in the same detail as appears in the budget
act, and (2) a statement of appropriation requirements of the state's General Fund to the
end of the fiscal year itemized as far as practicable for each budgeted agency, including
estimates of lapsing appropriations, unallocated lapsing balances and unallocated appropriation requirements; to transmit to the Office of Fiscal Analysis a copy of monthly
position data and monthly bond project run; to inquire into the operation of, and make
or recommend improvement in, the methods employed in the preparation of the budget
and the procedure followed in determining whether the funds expended by the departments, boards, commissions and institutions supported in whole or in part by the state
are wisely, judiciously and economically expended and to submit such findings and
recommendations to the General Assembly at each regular session, together with drafts
of proposed legislation, if any; to examine each department, state college, state hospital,
state-aided hospital, reformatory and prison and each other institution or other agency
supported in whole or in part by the state, except public schools, for the purpose of
determining the effectiveness of its policies, management, internal organization and
operating procedures and the character, amount, quality and cost of the service rendered
by each such department, institution or agency; to recommend, and to assist any such
department, institution or agency to effect, improvements in organization, management
methods and procedures and to report its findings and recommendations and submit
drafts of proposed legislation, if any, to the General Assembly at each regular session;
to consider and devise ways and means whereby comprehensive plans and designs to
meet the needs of the several departments and institutions with respect to physical plant
and equipment and whereby financial plans and programs for the capital expenditures
involved may be made in advance and to make or assist in making such plans; to devise
and prescribe the form of operating reports that shall be periodically required from the
several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies supported in whole
or in part by the state; to require the several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies to make such reports for such periods as said secretary may determine;
to verify the correctness of, and to analyze, all such reports and to take such action as
may be deemed necessary to remedy unsatisfactory conditions disclosed by such reports.
(1949 Rev., S. 221; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 85; P.A. 74-313, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 23, 610; P.A. 78-298, S. 6, 14; 78-303,
S. 5, 136; P.A. 82-465, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-589, S. 1, 87.)
History: 1961 act changed "teachers college" to "state college"; P.A. 74-313 required department to furnish comptroller
cumulative monthly statements of revenues and expenditures and accounts of estimated revenue and appropriation requirements; P.A. 77-614 substituted secretary of the office of policy and management for department and commissioner of
finance and control; P.A. 78-298 required that estimated revenue be listed by source and that estimated appropriation
requirements be itemized by agency; P.A. 78-303 deleted requirement regarding unused, improperly used or neglected
equipment; P.A. 82-465 required secretary to transmit copy of monthly position data and bond project run to office of fiscal
analysis; P.A. 87-589 made technical change, restoring language inadvertently deleted through computer processing error.
See Sec. 4d-100 re secretary as ex-officio member of Broadband Internet Coordinating Council.
See Sec. 28-31 re secretary's duty to review and approve annual plan for nuclear safety emergency preparedness
program.