(a) Each department or agency of the Government (other than the Legislature and the courts), on the date and in the form and content prescribed by the Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall prepare and forward to the Bureau of Budget and Management Research the following program and financial information:

(1) The goals and objectives of the agency programs, together with proposed supplements, deletions and revisions.

(2) Its proposed plans to implement the goals and objectives including estimates of future service needs, planned methods of

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administration, proposed modification of existing program services and establishment of new program services, and the estimated resources needed to carry out the proposed plan.

(3) The budget requested to carry out its proposed plans in the succeeding fiscal year. The budget request information shall include the expenditures during the last fiscal year, those estimated for the current fiscal year, those proposal for the succeeding fiscal year, and explanation of the services to be provided, the need for the services, the costs of the services and any other information requested by the Bureau of Budget and Management Research.

(4) A report of the receipts during the last fiscal year, an estimate of the receipts during the current fiscal year, and an estimate for the succeeding fiscal year.

(5) A statement of legislation required to implement the proposed programs and financial plans.

(6) An evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of specific alternatives to existing or proposed programs, policies or administrative methods.

(b) The territorial agency proposals prepared under Subsection (a) shall describe the relationships of their program services to those of other territorial agencies, of other governments and of nongovernmental bodies.

(c) The Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall assist agencies in the preparation of their proposals under Subsection (a). This assistance may include technical assistance; organization of materials; centrally collected accounting, budgeting and personnel information; standards and guidelines formulations; population and other required data; and any other assistance that will help the territorial agencies produce the information necessary for efficient agency management and effective decision-making by the Governor and the Legislature.

(d) If any territorial agency fails to transmit the program and financial information provided under Subsection (a) on the specified date, the Bureau of Budget and Management Research may prepare such information.

(e) The Bureau of Budget and Management Research shall compile and submit to the Governor-elect in any year when a new Governor has

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been elected, not later than November 20, a summary of the program and financial information prepared by territorial agencies.

(f) Each territorial agency shall send a representative or representatives to the legislative hearing or hearings dealing with that part of the Executive Budget dealing with such agency. At least four days prior to such hearing, each agency shall submit to the Chairman of the Committee on Ways & Means a statement indicating the priority of each program contemplated within the proposed budget which will be the subject of such hearing or hearings. Such prioritization shall be set out in such a manner that the Legislature may decide, from necessity or objective determination of the inappropriateness of any program to eliminate or reduce the portion of the proposed budget related to that program.

SOURCE: GC § 5155 added by P.L. 12-115; subsection (f) added by P.L. 15-22:1.