CT Gen Stat § 4-77 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning|Section 4-77 - Submission of estimates of expenditures by budgeted agencies. Guidelines for standard economic and planning factors and for unit costs for utilities. Statement of revenue and estimated revenue. Financial, personnel and nonappropriated moneys status reports.

 (a) The administrative head of each budgeted agency shall transmit, on or before September first of each even-numbered year, to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, on blanks to be furnished by him not later than the preceding August first, and to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, through the Office of Fiscal Analysis, and the standing committee having cognizance of matters relating to such budgeted agency, estimates of expenditure requirements for each fiscal year of the next biennium. On or before September first of each odd-numbered year, said agency head shall transmit recommended adjustments and revisions, if any, of such estimates. The secretary shall set guidelines for standard economic and planning factors and for unit costs, based on source of supply, for fuel oil, electricity, gas and water usage by state agencies, which shall be used by all agencies in the preparation of their estimates of expenditure requirements. The expenditure requirements shall be classified to show expenditures estimated for each major function and activity, project or program of the budgeted agency and its subdivisions, grants or aids to governmental units and capital outlay, and shall include details setting forth the estimated expenditures classified by objects according to a standard plan of classification, with citations of the statutes, if any, relating thereto. Each expenditure requirement for any purpose other than capital outlay involving an increase in or addition to any appropriation of the current fiscal year shall be accompanied by an explanation of the increase or addition. Each expenditure requirement involving a capital outlay shall be accompanied by such supporting schedules of data and explanations as may be required by the secretary.(b) The administrative head of each budgeted agency shall transmit, on or before September first of each year, to the secretary, in the form required by him, and, on or before November fifteenth of each year, to the joint committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to state finance, revenue and bonding, through the Office of Fiscal Analysis, a statement showing in detail the revenue and estimated revenue of the agency for the current fiscal year, an estimate of the revenue from the same or any additional sources for the next fiscal year and, in the even-numbered year, for the next biennium. Said agency head shall include in such statement recommendations as to any changes in the management, practices, regulations or laws governing his budgeted agency affecting the amount of revenue from operations, fees, taxes or other sources or the collection thereof, and any other information required by the secretary.(c) The administrative head of each budgeted agency shall transmit, to the Office of Fiscal Analysis, copies of the agency's monthly (1) financial status report, (2) personnel status report, and (3) nonappropriated moneys status report which shall be an accounting of moneys received or held by the agency that are authorized or received by any manner other than as an appropriation. Such accounting of nonappropriated moneys shall include, at a minimum, an assessment of the status of any agency fund or account of such agency receiving or holding such moneys. Such assessments of such funds and accounts shall, at a minimum, account for all expenditures, encumbrances, liabilities, reimbursements and revenues.(d) If any budgeted agency fails to submit estimates required pursuant to this section within the time specified, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall cause such estimates to be prepared for the budgeted agency.(1949 Rev., S. 231; 1953, June, 1955, S. 79d; 1971, P.A. 1, S. 8; P.A. 73-679, S. 9, 43; P.A. 74-264, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-537, S. 24, 55; P.A. 77-614, S. 31, 610; P.A. 79-31, S. 5, 17; P.A. 82-195; 82-314, S. 15, 63; 82-465, S. 3, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 39, 168; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 10.)History: 1971 act changed language to reflect switch from biennial to annual sessions; P.A. 73-679 replaced director of the budget with managing director, planning and budgeting division, department of finance and control or his designee; P.A. 74-264 required submission of estimated expenditures to appropriations committee and to committee concerned with matters relating to agency and submission of estimated revenue to finance committee; P.A. 75-537 changed division name to budget and management division and deleted reference to designee; P.A. 77-614 replaced director with secretary of the office of policy and management and required secretary to set guidelines for economic and planning factors for agencies' use; P.A. 79-31 changed formal designation of finance committee; P.A. 82-195 required secretary to set guidelines for unit costs for utilities used by state agencies and divided section into subsections; P.A. 82-314 changed formal designation of appropriations committee and made other technical changes; P.A. 82-465 changed date for submission of expenditure estimates to committees from November fifteenth to September first and required agency heads to transmit copy of monthly financial status report and personnel status report to office of fiscal analysis; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended language to reflect change from annual to biennial budget, effective July 1, 1992, and first applicable to biennium commencing July 1, 1993; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 added new Subsec. (c) requiring administrative head of each budgeted agency to transmit monthly financial, personnel and nonappropriated moneys status reports to Office of Fiscal Analysis, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (d) and amended same by deleting provision re financial and personnel status reports and making technical changes, effective October 5, 2009.Cited. 193 C. 670; 200 C. 386.