CT Gen Stat § 4-66 (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 4-66 - Powers and duties of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management.

 The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall have the following functions and powers:(1) To keep on file information concerning the state's general accounts;(2) To furnish all accounting statements relating to the financial condition of the state as a whole, to the condition and operation of state funds, to appropriations, to reserves and to costs of operations;(3) To furnish such statements as and when they are required for administrative purposes and, at the end of each fiscal period, to prepare and publish such financial statements and data as will convey to the General Assembly the essential facts as to the financial condition, the revenues and expenditures and the costs of operations of the state government;(4) To furnish to the State Comptroller on or before the twentieth day of each month cumulative monthly statements of revenues and expenditures to the end of the last-completed month together with (A) a statement of estimated revenue by source to the end of the fiscal year, at least in the same detail as appears in the budget act, and (B) a statement of appropriation requirements of the state's General Fund to the end of the fiscal year itemized as far as practicable for each budgeted agency, including estimates of lapsing appropriations, unallocated lapsing balances and unallocated appropriation requirements;(5) To transmit to the Office of Fiscal Analysis a copy of monthly position data and monthly bond project run;(6) To inquire into the operation of, and make or recommend improvement in, the methods employed in the preparation of the budget and the procedure followed in determining whether the funds expended by the departments, boards, commissions and institutions supported in whole or in part by the state are wisely, judiciously and economically expended and to submit such findings and recommendations to the General Assembly at each regular session, together with drafts of proposed legislation, if any;(7) To examine each department, state college, state hospital, state-aided hospital, reformatory and prison and each other institution or other agency supported in whole or in part by the state, except public schools, for the purpose of determining the effectiveness of its policies, management, internal organization and operating procedures and the character, amount, quality and cost of the service rendered by each such department, institution or agency;(8) To recommend, and to assist any such department, institution or agency to effect, improvements in organization, management methods and procedures and to report its findings and recommendations and submit drafts of proposed legislation, if any, to the General Assembly at each regular session;(9) To consider and devise ways and means whereby comprehensive plans and designs to meet the needs of the several departments and institutions with respect to physical plant and equipment and whereby financial plans and programs for the capital expenditures involved may be made in advance and to make or assist in making such plans;(10) To devise and prescribe the form of operating reports that shall be periodically required from the several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies supported in whole or in part by the state;(11) To require the several departments, boards, commissions, institutions and agencies to make such reports for such periods as said secretary may determine; and(12) To verify the correctness of, and to analyze, all such reports and to take such action as may be deemed necessary to remedy unsatisfactory conditions disclosed by such reports.(1949 Rev., S. 221; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 85; P.A. 74-313, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 23, 610; P.A. 78-298, S. 6, 14; 78-303, S. 5, 136; P.A. 82-465, S. 2, 5; P.A. 87-589, S. 1, 87; P.A. 15-142, S. 3.)History: 1961 act changed “teachers college” to “state college”; P.A. 74-313 required department to furnish comptroller cumulative monthly statements of revenues and expenditures and accounts of estimated revenue and appropriation requirements; P.A. 77-614 substituted secretary of the office of policy and management for department and commissioner of finance and control; P.A. 78-298 required that estimated revenue be listed by source and that estimated appropriation requirements be itemized by agency; P.A. 78-303 deleted requirement regarding unused, improperly used or neglected equipment; P.A. 82-465 required secretary to transmit copy of monthly position data and bond project run to office of fiscal analysis; P.A. 87-589 made technical change, restoring language inadvertently deleted through computer processing error; P.A. 15-142 added Subdiv. designators (1) to (12), redesignated existing Subdivs. (1) and (2) as Subdiv. (4)(A) and (B) and made technical changes, effective June 30, 2015.