Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:28 – Forms for the budget request
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:28
- Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Budget office: means the section of the division of administration which monitors budgeting functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Budget request: means the document with its accompanying explanations, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
- 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.
- Functions: means duties, jurisdiction, powers, rights, and obligations, conferred or imposed upon, or vested in, any agency by law, or exercised, performed, or discharged by any agency without contravention of any provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
A. The budget office shall prescribe the budget request forms to be used by each budget unit. The budget office shall consult with the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Committee on Finance on the format and content of the forms and shall consider any suggestions relative thereto.
B. On or before the twentieth day of September of each year, the budget office shall transmit to each budget unit a complete set of forms to be used by the budget unit to present its budget. The budget office shall include instructions on the proper method of completing the forms and shall provide consultation as requested by any budget unit on the establishment of measurements used to determine standards of performance and effectiveness of functions for each agency activity.
C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section, for each postsecondary education system, institution, or budget unit which is funded or which is proposed by the Board of Regents to be funded through the funding formula for the ensuing fiscal year, the forms to be used for budget requests shall be as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 39:32.1.
Acts 1989, No. 836, §1, eff. July 1, 1989; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 49, §1, eff. July 1, 1998; Acts 2010, No. 899, §2.