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UT Code § 63J-1-104 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|Section 104 - Revenue types -- Disposition of free revenue and restricted revenue.

 Effective 7/1/2018  63J-1-104. Revenue types -- Disposition of free revenue and restricted revenue.    (1)   (a) The Division of Finance shall:   (i) account for revenues in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; and     (ii) use the major revenue types in internal accounting.       (b) Each agency shall:   (i) use the major revenue types to account for revenues;     (ii) deposit revenues and other public funds received by them by following the procedures and requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and     (iii) expend revenues and public funds as required by this chapter.         (2)   (a) Each agency shall deposit its free revenues into the appropriate fund.     (b) An agency may expend free revenues up to the amount specifically appropriated by the Legislature.     (c) Any free revenue funds appropriated by the Legislature to an agency that remain unexpended at the end of the fiscal year lapse to the source fund unless the Legislature provides by law that those funds are nonlapsing.       (3)   (a) Each agency shall deposit its restricted revenues into the applicable restricted account or fund.     (b) Revenues in a restricted account or fund do not lapse to another account or fund unless otherwise specifically provided for by law or legislative appropriation.     (c) The Legislature may appropriate restricted revenues from a restricted account or fund for the specific purpose or program designated by law.     (d) If the fund equity of a restricted account or fund is insufficient to provide the accounts appropriated from it by the Legislature, the Division of Finance may reduce the appropriation to a level that ensures that the fund equity is not less than zero.     (e) Any restricted revenues appropriated by the Legislature to an agency that remain unexpended at the end of the fiscal year lapse to the applicable restricted account or fund unless the Legislature provides by law that those appropriations, or the program or line item financed by those appropriations, are nonlapsing.       (4) Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, when an agency has a program or line item that is funded by both free revenue and restricted revenue, an agency shall expend those revenues based upon a proration of the amounts appropriated from each of those major revenue types.    Amended by Chapter 469, 2018 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-201.5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 201.5 - Financial statement to be submitted annually.

 Effective 8/31/2020  63J-1-201.5. Financial statement to be submitted annually.  The governor shall submit an audited financial statement no later than December 31 of each year that shows:   (1) the revenues and expenditures for the last fiscal year;     (2) payment and discharge of the principal and interest of the indebtedness of the state;     (3) the current assets, liabilities, and reserves, surplus or deficit, and the debts and funds of the state;     (4) an estimate of the state's financial condition as of the beginning and the end of the period covered by the budget; and     (5) a complete analysis of lease with an option to purchase arrangements entered into by state agencies.    Amended by Chapter 12, 2020 Special Session 6
UT Code § 63J-1-205 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 205 - Revenue volatility report.

 Effective 7/1/2021  63J-1-205. Revenue volatility report.    (1) Beginning in 2011 and continuing every three years after 2011, the Legislative Fiscal Analyst and the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget shall submit a joint revenue volatility report to the Executive Appropriations Committee prior to the committee's December meeting.     (2) The Legislative Fiscal Analyst and the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget shall ensure that the report:   (a) discusses the tax base and the tax revenue volatility of the revenue streams that provide the source of funding for the state budget;     (b) considers federal funding included in the state budget and any projected changes in the amount or value of federal funding;     (c) identifies the balances in the General Fund Budget Reserve Account and the Education Fund Budget Reserve Account;     (d) analyzes the adequacy of the balances in the General Fund Budget Reserve Account and the Education Fund Budget Reserve Account in relation to the volatility of the revenue streams and the risk of a reduction in the amount or value of federal funding;     (e) recommends changes to the deposit amounts or transfer limits established in Sections 63J-1-312 and 63J-1-313, if the Legislative Fiscal Analyst and Governor's Office of Planning and Budget consider it appropriate to recommend changes; and     (f) presents options for a deposit mechanism linked to one or more tax sources on the basis of each tax source's observed volatility, including:   (i) an analysis of how the options would have performed historically within the state;     (ii) an analysis of how the options will perform based on the most recent revenue forecast; and     (iii) recommendations for deposit mechanisms considered likely to meet the budget reserve account targets established in Sections 63J-1-312 and 63J-1-313.        Amended by Chapter 382, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-205.1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 205.1 - Legislature to pay debt service first.

 Effective 5/12/2020  63J-1-205.1. Legislature to pay debt service first.  The Legislature shall appropriate money each fiscal year sufficient to pay the principal, premium, and interest due on the state's outstanding general obligation bonds before making any other appropriation in the fiscal year. Amended by Chapter 366, 2020 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-207 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 207 - Uniform School Fund -- Appropriations.

63J-1-207. Uniform School Fund -- Appropriations.    (1) Appropriations made from the General Fund to the Uniform School Fund to assist in financing the state's portion of the minimum school program, as provided by law, shall be conditioned upon available revenue.     (2) If revenues to the General Fund are not sufficient to permit transfers to the Uniform School Fund as provided by appropriation, the state fiscal officers shall withhold transfers from the General Fund to the Uniform School Fund during the fiscal period, as in their judgment the available revenues justify until:   (a) all other appropriations made by law have been provided for;     (b) any modifications to department and agency work programs have been made; and     (c) the governor has approved the transfer.       (3) Transfers from the General Fund to the Uniform School Fund shall be made at such times as required to equalize the property levy for each fiscal year.    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-208 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 208 - Conditions on appropriations binding.

63J-1-208. Conditions on appropriations binding.  A condition that is attached to an item of appropriation that is not inconsistent with law is binding upon the recipient of the appropriation.  Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-209 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 209 - Director of finance to exercise accounting control -- Budget execution plans -- Allotments and expenditures.

 Effective 7/1/2021  63J-1-209. Director of finance to exercise accounting control -- Budget execution plans -- Allotments and expenditures.    (1) The director of finance shall exercise accounting control over all state departments, institutions, and agencies other than the Legislature and legislative committees.     (2)   (a) The director shall require the head of each department to submit, by May 15 of each year, a budget execution plan for the next fiscal year.     (b) The director may require any department to submit a budget execution plan for any other period.       (3) The budget execution plan shall include appropriations and all other funds from any source made available to the department for its operation and maintenance for the period and program authorized by legislation that appropriates funds.     (4)   (a) In order to revise a budget execution plan, the department, agency, or institution seeking to revise the budget execution plan shall:   (i) develop a new budget execution plan that consists of the currently approved budget execution plan and the revision sought to be made;     (ii) prepare a written justification for the new budget execution plan that sets forth the purpose and necessity of the revision; and     (iii) submit the new budget execution plan and the written justification for the new budget execution plan to the Division of Finance.       (b) The Division of Finance shall process the new budget execution plan with written justification and make this information available to the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget and the legislative fiscal analyst.       (5) Upon request from the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, the Division of Finance shall revise budget execution plans.     (6) Notwithstanding the requirements of Title 63J, Chapter 2, Revenue Procedures and Control Act, the aggregate of the budget execution plan revisions may not exceed the total appropriations or other funds from any source that are available to the agency line item for the fiscal year in question.     (7) Upon transmittal of the new budget execution plan to the entities in Subsection (4), the Division of Finance shall permit all expenditures to be made from the appropriations or other funds from any source on the basis of those budget execution plans.     (8) The Division of Finance shall, through statistical sampling methods or other means, audit all claims against the state for which an appropriation has been made.    Amended by Chapter 382, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-209.5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 209.5 - Reporting requirements for budget execution plans for fiscal year 2021.

 Effective 4/22/2020  63J-1-209.5. Reporting requirements for budget execution plans for fiscal year 2021.    (1) Notwithstanding Subsection 63J-1-209(2), for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, the director of the Division of Finance may extend the deadline described in Subsection 63J-1-209(2)(a) for up to 45 days after the date described in Subsection 63J-1-209(2)(a).     (2) This section supersedes any conflicting provisions of Utah law.    Enacted by Chapter 3, 2020 Special Session 3
UT Code § 63J-1-210 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 210 - Restrictions on agency expenditures of money -- Lobbyists.

 Effective 7/1/2020  63J-1-210. Restrictions on agency expenditures of money -- Lobbyists.    (1) As used in this section:   (a)   (i) "Agency" means:   (A) a department, commission, board, council, agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state; or     (B) a school, a school district, or a charter school.       (ii) "Agency" includes the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the Utah Board of Higher Education, the board of trustees of each higher education institution, or a higher education institution.       (b) "Contract lobbyist" means a person who is not an employee of an agency who is hired as an independent contractor by the agency to communicate with legislators or the governor for the purpose of influencing the passage, defeat, amendment, or postponement of a legislative action or an executive action.     (c) "Executive action" means action undertaken by the governor, including signing or vetoing legislation, and action undertaken by any official in the executive branch of state government.     (d) "Legislative action" means action undertaken by the Utah Legislature or any part of it.       (2) An agency to which money is appropriated by the Legislature may not expend any money to pay a contract lobbyist.     (3) This section does not affect the provisions of Title 36, Chapter 11, Lobbyist Disclosure and Regulation Act.    Amended by Chapter 365, 2020 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-211 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 211 - Appropriating from restricted accounts.

63J-1-211. Appropriating from restricted accounts.    (1) As used in this section, "operating deficit" means that estimated General Fund or Uniform School Fund revenues are less than budgeted for the current or next fiscal year.     (2) Notwithstanding any other statute that limits the Legislature's power to appropriate from a restricted account, if the Legislature determines that an operating deficit exists, unless prohibited by federal law or court order, the Legislature may, in eliminating the deficit, appropriate money from a restricted account into the General Fund.    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-212 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 212 - Duplicate payment of claims prohibited.

63J-1-212. Duplicate payment of claims prohibited.  No claim against the state, the payment of which is provided for, shall be duplicated, and the amount of any appropriation for the payment of any such claim shall be withheld if it is covered by any other appropriation.  Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-213 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 213 - Appropriations from special funds or accounts -- Transfer by proper official only.

63J-1-213. Appropriations from special funds or accounts -- Transfer by proper official only.  Whenever appropriations are made from special funds, or a fund account, the transfer of money from those funds, or accounts, to the General Fund or any other fund for budgetary purposes shall be made by the proper state fiscal officer.  Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-214 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 214 - Warrants -- Not to be drawn until claim processed -- Redemption.

63J-1-214. Warrants -- Not to be drawn until claim processed -- Redemption.    (1) No warrant to cover any claim against any appropriation or fund shall be drawn until such claim has been processed as provided by law.     (2) The state treasurer shall return all redeemed warrants to the state fiscal officer for purposes of reconciliation, post-audit and verification of the state treasurer's fund balances.    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-215 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 215 - Cash funds -- Application for account -- Preference for purchasing card accounts -- Cash advances -- Revolving fund established by law excepted -- Elimination of cash funds.

63J-1-215. Cash funds -- Application for account -- Preference for purchasing card accounts -- Cash advances -- Revolving fund established by law excepted -- Elimination of cash funds.    (1) Before any new petty cash funds may be established, the commission, department, or agency requesting the fund or funds shall apply in writing to the Division of Finance and provide:   (a) the reasons why the cash fund is needed;     (b) the amount requested; and     (c) the reasons why a purchasing card account is not sufficient to meet the needs of the commission, department, or agency.       (2)   (a) The Division of Finance shall review the application and make a determination that:   (i) no cash fund or purchasing card account should be established;     (ii) a purchasing card account should be established; or     (iii) a cash fund should be established using money in the state treasury.       (b) When making a determination under Subsection (2)(a), the Division of Finance shall recommend a purchasing card account in lieu of a cash fund unless there is significant evidence that a purchasing account is not sufficient to meet the needs of the commission, department, or agency.       (3) Revolving funds established by law are not subject to the provisions of this section.     (4) The Division of Finance is authorized to review and close cash funds if the division determines that a purchasing card account will adequately meet the needs of the commission, department, or agency.    Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 183, 2009 General SessionRenumbered and Amended by Chapter 368, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-216 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 216 - Allotment of funds to higher education.

63J-1-216. Allotment of funds to higher education.    (1) The state fiscal officer may permit advances to be made from allotments to state institutions of higher education in sufficient amounts to provide necessary working bank balances to facilitate an orderly management of institutional affairs.     (2) State institutions of higher education shall make reports, as required by the state fiscal officer, for the expenditure of funds included in any advances.    Enacted by Chapter 183, 2009 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-217 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 217 - Overexpenditure of budget by agency -- Prorating budget income shortfall.

 Effective 7/1/2021  63J-1-217. Overexpenditure of budget by agency -- Prorating budget income shortfall.    (1) Expenditures of departments, agencies, and institutions of state government shall be kept within revenues available for such expenditures.     (2)   (a) Line items of appropriation shall not be overexpended.     (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (2)(a), if an agency's line item is overexpended at the close of a fiscal year:   (i) the director of the Division of Finance may make payments from the line item to vendors for goods or services that were received on or before June 30; and     (ii) the director of the Division of Finance shall immediately reduce the agency's line item budget in the current year by the amount of the overexpenditure.       (c) Each agency with an overexpended line item shall:   (i) prepare a written report explaining the reasons for the overexpenditure; and     (ii) present the report to:   (A) the Board of Examiners as required by Section 63G-9-301; and     (B) the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst.           (3)   (a) As used in this Subsection (3):   (i) "Education Fund budget deficit" has the same meaning as in Section 63J-1-312; and     (ii) "General Fund budget deficit" has the same meaning as in Section 63J-1-312.       (b) If an Education Fund budget deficit or a General Fund budget deficit exists and the adopted estimated revenues were prepared in consensus with the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget, the governor shall:   (i) direct state agencies to reduce commitments and expenditures by an amount proportionate to the amount of the deficiency; and     (ii) direct the Division of Finance to reduce allotments to institutions of higher education by an amount proportionate to the amount of the deficiency.       (c) The governor's directions under Subsection (3)(b) are rescinded when the Legislature rectifies the Education Fund budget deficit and the General Fund budget deficit.       (4)   (a) A department may not receive an advance of funds that cannot be covered by anticipated revenue within the budget execution plan of the fiscal year, unless the governor allocates money from the governor's emergency appropriations.     (b) All allocations made from the governor's emergency appropriations shall be reported to the budget subcommittee of the Legislative Management Committee by notifying the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst at least 15 days before the effective date of the allocation.     (c) Emergency appropriations shall be allocated only to support activities having existing legislative approval and appropriation, and may not be allocated to any activity or function rejected directly or indirectly by the Legislature.      Amended by Chapter 382, 2021 General Session
UT Code § 63J-1-217.5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 217.5 - Reporting requirements for overexpenditure of budget by agency for fiscal year 2020.

 Effective 4/22/2020  63J-1-217.5. Reporting requirements for overexpenditure of budget by agency for fiscal year 2020.    (1) Notwithstanding Section 63G-9-301 and Subsection 63J-1-217(2)(c), an agency with an overexpended line item for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2020, is not required to present a report to the Board of Examiners if the line item is overexpended as a result of the Legislature reducing the agency's nonlapsing appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2020, after the day on which the 2020 Annual General Session adjourns sine die and before the day on which the 2021 Annual General Session begins.     (2) This section supersedes any conflicting provisions of Utah law.    Enacted by Chapter 3, 2020 Special Session 3
UT Code § 63J-1-218 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 63J - Budgeting|Chapter 1 - Budgetary Procedures Act|Part 2 - Budget Process, Appropriations, and Expenditures|Section 218 - Reduction in federal funds -- Agencies to reduce budgets.

 Effective 5/10/2016  63J-1-218. Reduction in federal funds -- Agencies to reduce budgets.  In any fiscal year in which federal grants to be received by state agencies, departments, divisions, or institutions are reduced below the level estimated in the appropriations acts for that year, the programs supported by those grants must be reduced commensurate with the amount of the federal reduction unless the Legislature appropriates state funds to offset the loss in federal funding. Amended by Chapter 222, 2016 General Session