Missouri Laws 33.030 – Powers and duties
The division of the budget shall:
(1) Assist the director of revenue in preparing estimates and information concerning receipts and expenditures of all state agencies as required by the governor and general assembly.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 33.030
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) Certify approval of the incurring of every obligation for the payment of money and that the expenditure is within the purpose of the appropriation and that there is in the appropriation an unencumbered balance sufficient to pay it. As a prerequisite to certification, the commissioner of administration shall ascertain that the obligation to be incurred is within the work program and budget allotment.
(3) Preapprove all claims and accounts and certify them to the state treasurer for payment. As a prerequisite to his preapproval of claims and accounts, the commissioner of administration shall ascertain that the claims and accounts are regular and correct.
(4) Prepare and report to the governor or to the general assembly or either house thereof when requested any financial data or statistics which he or it requires, such as monthly or quarterly estimates of the state’s income and cost figures on the current operations of departments, institutions or agencies.