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MS Code § 27-101-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 101 - Annual Reports by Departments of Government, State-Supported Institutions and Taxing Entities|Annual Reports - Departments of Government and State-Supported Institutions|§ 27-101-1. Time for closing certain annual reports; executive summaries of report

  Each and every educational, eleemosynary and other institution of the State of Mississippi supported, in whole or in part, by the state, and each and every board, agency, commission and department of government, except the Departments of Insurance and of Education, shall prepare, on or before December 31 of each year, a detailed report covering the annual period ending the preceding June 30. The Insurance Department shall prepare, on or before December 31 of each year, a like report covering the annual period ending the preceding March 1. The Department of Education shall prepare, on or before December 31 of each year, a like report covering the preceding school year.   Each agency, board, commission, department and institution required by this section to prepare an annual report also shall prepare an executive summary of the report that is not more than three (3) pages long.
MS Code § 27-101-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 101 - Annual Reports by Departments of Government, State-Supported Institutions and Taxing Entities|Annual Reports - Departments of Government and State-Supported Institutions|§ 27-101-3. Publication and transmission of reports and executive summaries

 Each annual report required by Section 27-101-1 shall be published electronically on the official website of the respective institution, board, agency, commission or department, and shall be published on the Transparency Mississippi website maintained by the Department of Finance and Administration. One (1) copy of each annual report and the executive summary of the report shall be electronically transmitted to the Executive Director of the Department of Finance and Administration, the State Librarian, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each state elected and appointed official. Each person to whom an annual report is electronically transmitted may receive the information necessary to obtain the applicable annual report in electronic form, including instructions on how to print the report, upon request to the agency, board, commission, department or institution that prepared the report.
MS Code § 27-101-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 101 - Annual Reports by Departments of Government, State-Supported Institutions and Taxing Entities|Annual Reports - Departments of Government and State-Supported Institutions|§ 27-101-5. Publication of additional copies

 The Department of Finance and Administration may authorize the nonelectronic publication of a limited number of copies of the annual or other reports in meritorious cases.
MS Code § 27-101-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 101 - Annual Reports by Departments of Government, State-Supported Institutions and Taxing Entities|Annual Reports - Taxing Entities|§ 27-101-21. Annual reports by taxing entities; definitions; content of report

  As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Taxing entity" includes, but is not limited to, counties, municipalities, school districts, fire protection districts, road districts, water districts, sewer districts, utility districts, regional solid waste management authorities, utility authorities, drainage districts, community hospitals, community college districts and junior college districts, housing authorities, county industrial development authorities, port commissions, and any other such regional or local agencies, authorities or entities created under law.   "Tax revenue" includes, but is not limited to, revenue from ad valorem taxes, local sales taxes, gaming fees and taxes, payments in lieu of taxes, state sales tax diversions, fuel tax diversions and other tax sources.       In addition to any other requirements provided by law, a taxing entity shall file an annual report with the Department of Revenue providing the amount of tax revenues received by the taxing entity during the prior fiscal year. The report shall provide at least the following information:   The total tax revenues derived from taxes levied by the taxing entity and/or for the taxing entity;   The total tax revenues distributed to the taxing entity from state sales tax diversions, fuel tax diversions, ad valorem taxes, local sales taxes, payments in lieu of taxes, gaming fees and taxes and other tax sources; and   The sources from which the taxing entity received the tax revenues and the amounts received from each source.     The report required under this subsection shall be filed by the taxing entity not later than ninety (90) days after the close of the fiscal year for which the report is prepared.     The reports filed under this section shall be posted on the Department of Revenue's website.
MS Code § 27-103-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-103. Definitions

  For the purpose of Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27, the term "state general-fund agency" or "general-fund agency" shall mean any agency, department, institution, board or commission of the State of Mississippi which is supported in whole or in part by appropriations from the General Fund; but such term shall not include the Legislature.   For the purposes of Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27, the term "state special-fund agency" or "special-fund agency" shall mean any agency, department, institution, board or commission of the State of Mississippi which receives no appropriation from the General Fund, but which is supported entirely from special fund sources, by appropriation, or otherwise, but such term shall not include the State Highway Department; nor shall such term include the Mississippi Industries for the Blind.   For the purposes of Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27, the term "state agency" shall mean any general fund agency or special fund agency as defined in this section, or the State Highway Department, or the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway Department as is evident from the context wherein it is used.   For the purposes of Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27, the term "special funds" shall mean all revenues and/or income other than appropriations from the State General Fund which are received, collected by, or available for the support of or expenditure by any state general-fund agency or special-fund agency or the State Highway Department or the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway Department, whether such funds be derived from taxes or fees collected by or for such general-fund agency or special-fund agency or the State Highway Department or the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway Department, as the case may be, or from any other types of revenue from any other source.   For the purposes of Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27, the term "special funds" shall include revolving funds and all funds received from the United States Government by any state general-fund agency or special-fund agency, but shall not include any revolving fund established prior to July 1, 1984, for the purpose of paying or retiring any indebtedness as is authorized by statute.
MS Code § 27-103-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-105. Endowment funds, certain research funds and private gifts not exempt from budget procedures

 Endowment funds from whatever source received, research funds from other than state appropriations, and private gifts to designated agencies or for designated purposes, may not be considered as special funds for the purposes of this chapter and may not be exempt from its terms and provisions.
MS Code § 27-103-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-107. Reports

 All receipts, disbursements, assets, liabilities, encumbrances and fund balances shall be reported to the legislative budget office in regular reports and at such additional periods as the legislative budget office may require. All general fund agencies shall file such reports monthly with the legislative budget office on or before the fifteenth day of the succeeding month. The reports must contain such information and in such form as shall be required by the legislative budget office.
MS Code § 27-103-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-109. Special fund agency reports

 Special-fund agencies may be required to file monthly financial statements or reports in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and such agencies may be required to file quarterly or annual reports. The determination of the type of reports and the periods to be covered by such reports shall be determined by the legislative budget office.
MS Code § 27-103-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-111. Director; authority; compensation; clerical and technical assistants

 The business of the committee and the legislative budget office shall be administered by a director, who shall be appointed by the committee and who shall serve at the will and pleasure of the committee. He shall receive such compensation as may be provided by the committee and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by this or any other statute. Subject to the approval of the committee, he shall have the authority to appoint and employ such stenographic, secretarial, clerical and technical assistants as may be necessary to perform the duties required of the committee and to fix the salaries thereof. All salaries established herein shall be subject to the approval of the committee.
MS Code § 27-103-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-113. Budget preparation

 It shall be the duty of the Legislative Budget Office to prepare an overall balanced budget of the entire expenses and income of the state for each fiscal year, which budget shall encompass the operations of all general-fund agencies and all special-fund agencies and the Mississippi Department of Transportation and the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Beginning with the 1996 fiscal year, such budget shall be prepared in a format which will include performance measurement data associated with the various programs operated by each agency. Said overall budget shall be completed prior to December 15 before the convening of the Legislature at the regular session.
MS Code § 27-103-114 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-114. Proposed budget to include multiyear plan for all agencies included in budget, all funding sources, and identified program categories

 The Legislative Budget Office shall prepare and include in the proposed budget a multiyear plan for all agencies included in the proposed budget, for all sources of funding, and for such program categories as the Legislative Budget Office identifies. Such plan shall be based on the actual experience of the immediately preceding three (3) fiscal years, on the approved current fiscal year budget, and on estimates for at least the four (4) succeeding fiscal years.
MS Code § 27-103-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-115. Recommendations and studies as to state agencies

 It shall be the further duty of the Legislative Budget Office to make continuous and careful study of all state agencies, and it may make recommendations to the State Legislature for abolition or consolidation or creation of state agencies.
MS Code § 27-103-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-117. Duties of director of Legislative Budget Office

 It shall be the duty of the director of the Legislative Budget Office to familiarize himself with the operations, needs, requirements and anticipated expenses and income of all state agencies and, for such purpose, he shall have the authority to require any state agency to furnish him with any and all necessary information.
MS Code § 27-103-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-119. Consultation with legislative committees by director

 It shall be further required of the director of the Legislative Budget Office, when the legislature is in session, to consult with the finance and appropriations committees of the senate and the ways and means and appropriations committees of the house of representatives as those committees may require.
MS Code § 27-103-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-121. Budget; parts and summary

 The overall budget so prepared shall be in three (3) parts as specified in Sections 27-103-101 through 27-103-139 and 27-104-1 through 27-104-27 and shall contain a general summary of the three (3) parts.
MS Code § 27-103-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-123. Part 1 of budget; contents

 Part 1 of the overall budget shall include therein the requested budget and the recommended budget for each general fund agency and the proposed revenue by means of which the recommended appropriations can be met.   The overall budget shall show, for each general fund agency, in addition to such other information as may be prescribed by the Legislative Budget Office, the following:   The amount appropriated from the General Fund for the current fiscal year, all special funds receipts already collected and available in the current fiscal year, and an estimate of all special funds which will be collected, or otherwise will become available, by the end of the then current fiscal year;   The estimated amount of all expenditures to be made or obligations to be incurred payable from general or special funds during the then current fiscal year;   The estimated aggregate amount of funds which will be needed by the agency for the succeeding fiscal year; beginning with the 1995 fiscal year and in the event that any services proposed to be provided by the agency in the succeeding fiscal year are Medicaid reimbursable, any state general matching funds necessary for such reimbursements shall be included in the agency's proposed budget, and the appropriation to the Division of Medicaid in the 1995 fiscal year shall be adjusted accordingly;   The estimated aggregate amount of special funds, if any, which will be available during the succeeding fiscal year, including any balances which will be on hand at the close of the then current fiscal year;   The estimated amount which will be needed and which will require change in existing law or laws;   If any new item of expense is included in the proposed budget of any general fund agency, the reason therefor shall be given; and in any case where the Legislative Budget Office shall eliminate or reduce any item or items in the budget request of any general fund agency, it shall note briefly the reasons therefor, together with the reasons advanced by the agency in support of the item or items eliminated or reduced.
MS Code § 27-103-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-125. Separation of items; limitation on expenditures; recommendations as to additional taxes or sources of revenue

 The proposed budget of each state agency shall show the amounts required for operating expenses separately from the amounts required for permanent improvements. The overall budget shall show, separately by each source, the estimated amount of general fund revenue and of special fund revenues of general fund agencies. The total proposed expenditures in Part 1 of the overall budget shall not exceed the amount of estimated revenues that will be available in the general and special funds for appropriation or use during the succeeding fiscal year, including any balances other than unencumbered balances in general funds that will be on hand in the general and special funds at the close of the then current fiscal year. The total proposed expenditures from the State General Fund in Part 1 of the overall budget shall not exceed ninety-eight percent (98%) of the amount of general fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year. However, for fiscal years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017 only, the total proposed expenditures from the State General Fund in Part 1 of the overall budget shall not exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of the general fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year, and for fiscal year 2018, the total proposed expenditures from the State General Fund in Part 1 of the overall budget shall not exceed ninety-nine percent (99%) of the amount of general fund revenue estimate for the succeeding fiscal year. The general fund revenue estimate shall be the estimate jointly adopted by the Governor and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The Legislative Budget Office may recommend additional taxes or sources of revenue if in its judgment those additional funds are necessary to adequately support the functions of the state government.
MS Code § 27-103-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-131. Failure or refusal to file budget request; proceedings

 If any officer or employee of any state agency whose duty it is to do so shall refuse or fail to file a budget request with such information and in such form and in such detail and within such time as the legislative budget office may require in the exercise of its authority, the director shall prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, a budget request for such agency, and the expense thereof shall be personally borne by said officer or employee, and he or she shall be responsible on his or her official bond for the payment of the expense; provided that a negligently prepared budget shall be considered as a refusal or failure under the provisions of this section. The records of the legislative budget office and the overall budget submitted by it to the Legislature shall clearly identify and set forth all the facts relative to any agency budget request prepared by the director under the authority of this section.
MS Code § 27-103-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-133. Visitation of state agencies; hearings

 The director of the Legislative Budget Office, in person or by assistant, may visit such state agencies as the committee deems necessary to obtain information as to the needs or requirements thereof, and may hold hearings at such place or places as may be designated for such purpose.
MS Code § 27-103-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-135. Information to be furnished by tax, fee-collecting or other revenue-producing agency; reports

  At such regular or special times and on such forms as the Legislative Budget Office may require, every tax or fee-collecting or other revenue-producing agency shall furnish the Legislative Budget Office with complete and detailed information as to the amount of revenue collected or otherwise received by it during the then current fiscal year, together with an estimate of the revenue that is anticipated for such succeeding periods as the Legislative Budget Office may require. In addition, each state agency that maintains funds in accounts that are not in the State Treasury shall furnish the Legislative Budget Office with detailed information about the amount of those funds that the agency has on hand and the location of those funds.   At such regular or special times and on such forms as the State Fiscal Officer may require, every tax or fee-collecting or other revenue-producing agency shall furnish the Department of Finance and Administration with complete and detailed information as to the amount of revenue collected or otherwise received by it during the then current fiscal year, together with an estimate of the revenue that is anticipated for such succeeding periods as the board may require. The information required to be furnished under this section shall include all revenues from every fee, penalty, tax, assessment or other charge levied, whether authorized by law or not, and shall further include an itemized statement by the agency of the costs of services for which fees are charged, comparing the costs with revenues generated by the fees.   The State Fiscal Officer shall review the information so furnished and report to the Legislature any fees that do not appear to be reasonably calculated to recover the costs of services for which the fees are charged, and any fees that are collected without legal authority.
MS Code § 27-103-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Joint Legislative Budget Committee; Legislative Budget Office|§ 27-103-137. Hearings on budget requirements; copies of budget

 The Legislative Budget Office shall hold such hearings as may be necessary to determine the actual budget requirements of the agencies. The state fiscal management board and the governor's budget officer shall be notified of such hearings and the board and any staff members of the board and of the governor's office may attend such hearings in order to give the governor adequate information on which to base any budget recommendations he may desire to submit to the legislature. The Legislative Budget Office shall have made a sufficient number of copies of its proposed budget in order that the data contained therein will be available to the members of the Legislature for consideration, and to provide a copy for each state agency included in the budget proposal, and shall forward a copy to each member or member-elect of the Legislature and to each state agency on or about December 15 of each year.
MS Code § 27-103-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 27 - Taxation and Finance|Chapter 103 - State Budget|Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994|§ 27-103-151. Short title; purpose

 Sections 27-103-151 through 27-103-157 shall be cited as the "Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994." The processes and procedures established by Sections 27-103-151 through 27-103-157 are derived in large measure from recommendations contained within the study entitled "The Mississippi Budgeting Process" issued by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in December 1992 as required by Section 27-103-209.