Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6331 – Data on legislative and judicial expenses
(a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine the actual expenses of each last preceding legislative session.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6331
- Budget: includes the complete financial plan of the State as evidenced by all appropriations and allowances made and estimates of revenue approved by the General Assembly, including, in addition to the general budget of appropriations adopted by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor, all other appropriations and allowances authorized by law which have been or shall be made to any agency of this State which is supported in whole or in part out of the revenues, taxes, licenses, fees, permits, fines and from other sources including any agency which is empowered by statute to collect and expend revenues by the use of special funds by whatever name known whether or not specifically appropriated by the General Assembly, and includes the budgets and the revenues and expenditures of all agencies to which moneys are appropriated by supplementary appropriations or otherwise. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) On or before November 15, annually, estimates of the financial needs of the state judiciary for the ensuing fiscal year shall be furnished to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget by the Clerk of the Supreme Court and certified by him or her. These estimates shall include without change, salaries of the state judiciary as fixed by law; the estimates of other requirements for the state judiciary for the ensuing fiscal year shall be included as designated to the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
(c) All of the data relative to the legislative branch of the government and the state judiciary shall be for the Office of Management and Budget Director’s information and guidance in estimating the total financial needs of the State for the ensuing fiscal year, but none of these estimates shall be subject to revision or review by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and must be included in the budget report as prepared by it.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, § ?6; Code 1935, § ?5404; 42 Del. Laws, c. 204, § ?6; 29 Del. C. 1953, § ?6331; 54 Del. Laws, c. 39, § ?4; 67 Del. Laws, c. 47, § ?73; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 88, § ?21(13);