§ 35-3-7 - Submission of budget to general assembly – Contents.
SECTION 35-3-7
§ 35-3-7 Submission of budget to generalassembly – Contents. – (a) On or before the third Thursday in January in each year of each Januarysession of the general assembly, the governor shall submit to the generalassembly a budget containing a complete plan of estimated revenues and proposedexpenditures, with a personnel supplement detailing the number and titles ofpositions of each agency and the estimates of personnel costs for the nextfiscal year. Provided, however, in those years that a new governor isinaugurated, the new governor shall submit the budget on or before the firstThursday in February. In the budget the governor may set forth in summary anddetail:
(1) Estimates of the receipts of the state during the ensuingfiscal year under laws existing at the time the budget is transmitted and alsounder the revenue proposals, if any, contained in the budget, and comparisonswith the estimated receipts of the state during the current fiscal year, aswell as actual receipts of the state for the last two (2) completed fiscalyears.
(2) Estimates of the expenditures and appropriationsnecessary in the governor's judgment for the support of the state governmentfor the ensuing fiscal year, and comparisons with appropriations forexpenditures during the current fiscal year, as well as actual expenditures ofthe state for the last two (2) complete fiscal years.
(3) Financial statements of the
(i) Condition of the treasury at the end of the lastcompleted fiscal year;
(ii) The estimated condition of the treasury at the end ofthe current fiscal year; and
(iii) Estimated condition of the treasury at the end of theensuing fiscal year if the financial proposals contained in the budget areadopted.
(4) All essential facts regarding the bonded and otherindebtedness of the state.
(5) A report indicating those program revenues andexpenditures whose funding source is proposed to be changed from stateappropriations to restricted receipts, or from restricted receipts to otherfunding sources.
(6) Such other financial statements and data as in thegovernor's opinion are necessary or desirable.
(b) Any other provision of the general laws to the contrarynotwithstanding, the proposed appropriations submitted by the governor to thegeneral assembly for the next ensuing fiscal year should not be more than fiveand one-half percent (5.5%) in excess of total state appropriations, excludingany estimated supplemental appropriations, enacted by the general assembly forthe fiscal year previous to that for which the proposed appropriations arebeing submitted; provided, that the increased state share provisions requiredto achieve fifty percent (50%) state financing of local school operations asprovided for in P.L. 1985, ch. 182, shall be excluded from the definition oftotal appropriations.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 35-3-7(a),the governor shall submit to the general assembly a budget for the fiscal yearending June 30, 2006 not later than the fourth (4th) Thursday in January 2005.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 35-3-7(a),the governor shall submit to the general assembly a supplemental budget for thefiscal year ending June 30, 2006 and/or a budget for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 2007 not later than Thursday, January 26, 2006.
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 35-3-7(a),the governor shall submit to the general assembly a supplemental budget for thefiscal year ending June 30, 2007 and/or a budget for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 2008 not later than Wednesday, January 31, 2007.