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Timing of Legislative Receipt of Agency Budget Requests

Legislative Budget Procedures: Development of the Recommended Budget

Legislative Budget Procedures Executive Summary

Timing of Legislative Receipt of Agency Budget Requests

Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, December 1997.

Key:
† = The legislature receives the executive budget only, not individual agency budget requests.
-- = Not applicable
N/R = No response

*Notes:

Arkansas--Agency requests are submitted at the same time the executive budget is submitted to the legislature.

Colorado--By statute, all departments' requests are submitted to the Joint Budget Committee by Nov. 1. The final executive budget is due to the General Assembly in January.

Connecticut--Agency requests are received by the Office of Fiscal Analysis at the same time as the Office of Policy Management (governor's budget office) per statute (Sec. 4-77).

Idaho--The Legislative Budget Office and the Executive Budget Office receive the agency budget requests at the same time. Two copies are delivered Sept. 1.

Maryland--Although the General Assembly does not formally receive agency requests, requests customarily are submitted to legislative staff on a confidential basis.

Massachusetts--Agencies make official budget requests to the executive branch. However, the budget director for the executive branch also is directed by statute to forward these requests to the Legislative Committee on Ways and Means.

Michigan--Supporting documentation varies by department or agency and is sometimes made available before the executive budget, but often later. There is no standard.

Mississippi--Agency budget requests are available Aug. 1, before the executive budget is prepared and before the Legislative Budget Office prepares its recommendation.

Montana--Legislative staff, by statute, receive a copy of agency requests at the same time they are transmitted to the governor.

Nevada--Requests come to the Fiscal Division at the same time as to the Budget Division. The executive budget as submitted includes the agency request.

New Jersey--The Legislative Budget and Finance Office is supposed to receive agency requests by Oct. 1. In reality, they are received well after that date, and some are never received.

Oklahoma--Both the Legislature and the governor receive the agency budget requests at the same time (Oct. 1).

South Carolina--Cabinet agency requests are received when the governor presents the executive budget. Independent agency budget requests are received earlier.

Virginia--Budget requests are received by the legislature late in the process of preparing the executive budget.

Northern Mariana Islands--Under the constitutional mandate on the unified budget, budgets are submitted only to the Legislature. Agencies, which are autonomous in nature (self-generating revenues), also submit their budgets to the budget office for informational purposes only; these budgets are included as a separate component of the unified budget package submission.

Published March 1998; posted January 2004.
The publication to which this table belongs, Legislative Budget Procedures: A Guide to Appropriations and Budget Processes in the States, Commonwealths and Territories, is available wholly and solely online.
Email statebudget-info@ncsl.org for more information.
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