§ 4-71 — Transmission to General Assembly of budget document in odd-numbered year and status report in even-numbered year. Report re three fiscal years immediately following biennium.

Connecticut § 4-71

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 4: Management of State Agencies
• Ch. 50: Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning

Text

Not later than the first session day following the third day of February in each odd-numbered year, the Governor shall transmit to the General Assembly a budget document setting forth his financial program for the ensuing biennium with a separate budget for each of the two fiscal years and having the character and scope hereinafter set forth, and a report which sets forth estimated revenues and expenditures for the three fiscal years next ensuing the biennium to which the budget document relates. If the Governor has been elected or succeeded to the office of Governor since the submission of the last-preceding budget document, he shall transmit such document and report to the General Assembly not later than the first session day following the fourteenth day of February. In the even-numbered years, on the day on which the General Assembly first convenes, the Governor shall transmit a report on the status of the budget enacted in the previous year with any recommendations for adjustments and revisions, and a report, with revisions, if any, which sets forth estimated revenues and expenditures for the three fiscal years next ensuing the biennium in progress. The budget document shall consist of four parts, the nature and contents of which are set forth in sections 4-72, 4-73, 4-74 and 4-74a and shall be accompanied by the statement of grants to towns compiled pursuant to the provisions of section 4-71a and by the computation of the cost of an indexed increase in assistance payments made pursuant to section 4-71c. The report which sets forth estimated revenues and expenditures for the three fiscal years next ensuing the biennium shall contain, for each such year, estimated revenues, itemized by major source, and estimated expenditures for each budgeted agency for personal services, other expenses, other current expenses, equipment, payments to local governments, and other than payments to local governments. Such report transmitted in the even-numbered years shall contain the assumptions on which the estimated revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year next ensuing are based and shall set forth estimated revenues and expenditures in the same detail contained in the budget document.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 225; 1951, S. 75d; 1971, P.A. 1, S. 5; 113; 1972, P.A. 221, S. 8; P.A. 79-607, S. 16; P.A. 85-505, S. 16, 21; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 34, 168; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14, S. 29, 30.) History: 1971 acts made changes to reflect the switch from biennial to annual sessions, changed date for budget document submission to first session day following third day of February in odd-numbered years except for new governors it remained first session day following February 14 and made provision for submission in even-numbered years on first day assembly is convened; 1972 act required four-part rather than three-part budget; P.A. 79-607 required that budget be accompanied by statement of grants to towns; P.A. 85-505 required that a computation of the cost of an indexed increase in assistance payments accompany the budget document; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended language to reflect change from annual to biennial budget, required governor to transmit, in each odd-numbered year, a budget document for the ensuing biennium with a separate budget for each of the two fiscal years, and a report which sets forth estimated expenditures and revenues for the three fiscal years next ensuing biennium to which budget document relates, and in each even-numbered year, a report on the status of the budget enacted in the previous year with any recommendations for adjustments and revisions and a report, with revisions, if any, which sets forth estimated revenues and expenditures for the three years next ensuing the biennium in progress; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14 changed effective date of June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 34 from August 22, 1991, to July 1, 1992, and first applicable to biennium commencing July 1, 1993. Cited. 193 C. 670; 200 C. 386.