KRS § 11.068 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 11 / Section 11.068
11.068 Office of State Budget Director -- Organizational units -- Duties, rights, and responsibilities
Status: in_force

11.068 Office of State Budget Director -- Organizational units -- Duties, rights,

and responsibilities.

(1) There is created an agency of state government known as the Office of State

Budget Director. The office shall be attached for administrative purposes to the

Office of the Governor.

(2) The office shall include the following major organizational units:

(a) The Office of State Budget Director, headed by the state budget director.

The state budget director shall be appointed by the Governor pursuant to

KRS 11.040 and shall serve, under direction of the Governor, as state

budget director and secretary of the state planning committee. The office

shall include such principal assistants and supporting personnel

appointed pursuant to KRS Chapter 12 as may be necessary to carry out

the functions of the office. The office shall have such duties, rights, and

responsibilities as are necessary to perform, without being limited to, the

following functions:

1. Functions relative to the preparation, administration, and evaluation

of the executive budget as provided in KRS Chapters 45 and 48 and

in other laws, including but not limited to, capital construction

budgeting, evaluation of state programs, program monitoring,

financial and policy analysis and issue review, and executive policy

implementation and compliance;

2. Continuous evaluation of statewide management and administrative

procedures and practices, including but not limited to economic

forecasting, technical assistance to state agencies, forms control,

and special analytic studies as directed by the Governor; and

3. Staff planning functions of the state planning committee and

evaluation of statewide management and administrative practices

and procedures.

(b) Governor's Office for Policy and Management, headed by the state

budget director. The state budget director shall maintain staff employed

pursuant to KRS Chapter 18A sufficient to carry out the functions of the

office relating to state budgeting as provided in paragraph (a) of this

subsection and state planning as provided in KRS Chapter 147, review of

administrative regulations proposed by executive agencies prior to filing

pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A and such other duties as may be assigned

by the Governor.

(c) Governor's Office for Policy Research, headed by the state budget

director. The Governor's Office for Policy Research shall assist the state

budget director in providing policy research data, information, and

analysis to the Governor on public policy issues that impact the

Commonwealth. The state budget director shall identify and direct the

research to be completed and provided by the office. The state budget

director shall maintain staff employed in accordance with KRS Chapter

18A sufficient to carry out the functions of the office.

(d) Governor's Office for Economic Analysis, headed by the state budget

director. The state budget director shall maintain staff employed in

accordance with KRS Chapter 18A sufficient to carry out the functions of

the office. The Governor's Office for Economic Analysis shall carry out the

revenue estimating and economic analysis functions and responsibilities,

including but not limited to the functions and responsibilities assigned to

the Office of State Budget Director by KRS Chapter 48. The Governor's

Office for Economic Analysis shall perform the tax administrative function

of using tax data to provide the Department of Revenue with studies,

projections, statistical analyses, and any other information that will assist

the Department of Revenue in performing its tax administrative functions.