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Where Major Appropriations Bill(s) are Introduced in the Legislature

Legislative Budget Procedures: Appropriations Bills and the Budget Document

Legislative Budget Procedures Executive Summary

Where Major Appropriations Bill(s) are Introduced in the Legislature

Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, December 1997.

Key:
-- = Not applicable
N/R = No response

*Notes:

District of Columbia--Unicameral Legislature.

Guam--Unicameral Legislature.

Indiana--Usually in the House; however, the 1997-1999 budget was the product of a special session and the budget bill was a Senate bill.

Kansas--In the past, bills were divided between the House and Senate on a biennial basis. Due to an informal agreement between the chairs of the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Ways and Means Committee, each chamber considered one appropriations bill simultaneously during the 1997 session. This also is scheduled to occur in 1998.

Maine--The budget bill, by tradition, is a House paper and therefore originates in the House.

Michigan--Consideration or movement on the bills is divided between the two chambers and the house of origin alternates from year to year.

Nebraska--Unicameral Legislature.

Northern Mariana Islands--Unicameral Legislature.

Ohio--Bills are introduced in both houses, depending on the bill, but never in both at the same time.

Oklahoma--The Senate introduces appropriations bills for half the state agencies; the House introduces the other half. The following year the House introduces bills for the agencies that the Senate had introduced the previous year, etc.

South Dakota--Except for individual spending bills, which may be introduced in either house, major appropriations bills alternate between the House and Senate.

West Virginia--The two houses alternate years in enrolling the enacted budget bill.

Wisconsin--The Joint Committee on Finance determines whether the bill will be introduced as an Assembly or Senate bill. The bill usually alternates between houses.

Legislative Budget Procedures Executive Summary

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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