§ 3-115 — Preparation of accounting statements; monthly cumulative financial statements; annual report to the Governor.

Connecticut § 3-115

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 3: State Elective Officers
• Ch. 34: Comptroller

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(a)(1) The Comptroller shall prepare all accounting statements relating to the financial condition of the state as a whole, the condition and operation of state funds, appropriations, reserves and costs of operations and shall furnish such statements when they are required for administrative purposes. (2) The Comptroller shall issue cumulative monthly financial statements concerning the state's General Fund which shall include (A) a statement of revenues and expenditures to the end of the last-completed month, together with the statement of estimated revenue by source to the end of the fiscal year and the statement of appropriation requirements of the state's General Fund to the end of the fiscal year furnished pursuant to section 4-66 and itemized as far as practicable for each budgeted agency, including estimates of lapsing appropriations, unallocated lapsing balances and unallocated appropriation requirements, and (B) an analysis of the statements furnished by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to the Comptroller pursuant to subdivision (4) of section 4-66 . The Comptroller shall provide the cumulative monthly financial statements, in the same form and in the same categories as appears in the budget act enacted by the General Assembly, on or before the first day of the following month. The Comptroller shall submit a copy of the monthly trial balance and monthly analysis of expenditure run to the legislative Office of Fiscal Analysis. (b) On or before September thirtieth, annually, the Comptroller shall submit a report, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, to the Governor which shall include (1) a statement of all appropriations and expenditures of the public funds during the fiscal year next preceding itemized by each appropriation account of each budgeted agency; (2) a statement of the revenues of the state classified as far as practicable as to budgeted agencies, sources and funds during such year; (3) a statement setting forth the total tax receipts of the state during such year; (4) a balance sheet setting forth, as of the close of such year, the financial condition of the state as to its funds; and such other information as will, in the Comptroller's opinion, be of interest to the public or as will convey to the General Assembly and the Governor the essential facts as to the financial condition and operations of the state government. The annual report of the Comptroller shall be published and made available to the public on or before the thirty-first day of December.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 190; 1959, P.A. 132, S. 15; 1967, P.A. 363, S. 5; 1971, P.A. 435, S. 1; 1972, P.A. 147, S. 1; P.A. 74-313, S. 2, 3; P.A. 75-62, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-302, S. 3, 11; P.A. 82-465, S. 1, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14, S. 1, 30; P.A. 99-3; P.A. 11-48, S. 44; P.A. 15-244, S. 166; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 713, 729; P.A. 18-26, S. 29.) History: 1959 act required inclusion in annual report to governor of statement of total tax receipts; 1967 act changed report deadline from September fifteenth to August fifteenth and included appropriations and encumbrances against preceding year's appropriations; 1971 act changed report deadline to September first; 1972 act deleted provision requiring inclusion of encumbrances against preceding appropriations; P.A. 74-313 added provision concerning cumulative monthly financial statements; P.A. 75-62 changed date of issuance from twenty-fifth of each month to first of following month; P.A. 78-302 deleted reference to transportation fund, called for itemization of appropriations information by agency in monthly statements and annual report and required availability of annual report to public by December first each year; P.A. 82-465 required comptroller to submit copy of monthly trial balance and monthly analysis of expenditure run to office of fiscal analysis; P.A. 91-14 required the comptroller to include, in the cumulative monthly financial statements, the statement of estimated revenue and the statement of appropriation requirements to the end of the fiscal year “furnished pursuant to section 4-66” rather than an “analysis” of such statements; (Revisor's note: In 1993 the word “before” was inserted editorially by the Revisors in the last sentence before the words “the first day of December”); P.A. 99-3 changed publication date of annual report from December first to December thirty-first; P.A. 11-48 changed report deadline to September 30th, required report to be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 15-244 inserted Subdiv. (5) re annual report statement certifying threshold level for deposits to Budget Reserve Fund under Sec. 4-30a(a)(5) for current fiscal year and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2019; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 designated existing provisions re Comptroller to prepare accounting statements and issue cumulative monthly financial statements as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add provision re analysis of statements furnished by secretary pursuant to Sec. 4-66, designated existing provisions re Comptroller to submit report as Subsec. (b), and made technical and conforming changes, effective November 1, 2017, and applicable to cumulative monthly financial statements issued on or after December 1, 2017, and repealed P.A. 15-244, S. 166, effective July 1, 2019, effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-26 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(2).