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AR Code § 19-3-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 3 - State Treasury Management|Subchapter 7 - State Board of Finance|§ 19-3-703. Meetings — Quorum — Staff

 (a)  (1) Meetings of the State Board of Finance shall be held:  (A) At least quarterly:  (i) Upon the call of the Governor or by any three (3) or more members; and  (ii) Upon advance notice to each member; and    (B) At a place that is convenient for the board.    (2) The meetings shall be conducted in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., and complete records of the proceedings shall be kept.    (b)  (1) Seven (7) members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.  (2) The affirmative vote of a majority of members present is required to adopt a motion or resolution.    (c) The staff of an elected or appointed official of the board may provide any assistance requested by the board.
AR Code § 19-3-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 3 - State Treasury Management|Subchapter 7 - State Board of Finance|§ 19-3-704. Powers and duties

 (a) In addition to any other function, power, or duty imposed by law, the State Board of Finance shall establish, maintain, and enforce all policies and procedures concerning the management and investment of funds in the State Treasury and the State Treasury Money Management Trust, including without limitation:  (1) Record keeping and reporting requirements that reflect:  (A) Daily, monthly, and year-to-date balances of all funds, accounts, and groups of accounts within the State Treasury; and  (B) The performance of all deposits and investments compared to the target rate of return established by the board;    (2) A collateralization policy;  (3) Eligibility requirements for a bank depository, an investment depository, a securities broker, and, before accepting an application to hire an investment consultant under subsection (c) of this section, an investment consultant;  (4) An investment policy;  (5) Liquidity requirements for the State Treasury; and  (6) Qualifications, ethical standards, a conflict of interest policy, and criminal background check requirements that are no less stringent than the requirements of § 19-3-705 for all employees of the board or Treasurer of State who handle State Treasury funds or participate in decisions concerning the deposit or investment of State Treasury funds.    (b)  (1) The board shall select the chief compliance officer within the Treasurer of State's office based upon nominations received from the Treasurer of State.  (2) The chief compliance officer shall:  (A) Be employed by the board;  (B) Work with and at the direction of the Treasurer of State consistent with the policies and directives of the board; and  (C) Serve at the pleasure of the board.      (c) The board may hire an investment consultant to examine the investment policies and investment practices for the State Treasury and make recommendations to the board, including without limitation recommendations concerning:  (1) An appropriate range for asset allocation;  (2) A target rate of return;  (3) The propriety of using money managers and, if desired, recommendations concerning money managers; and  (4) Adjustments to improve investment policies, investment allocations, or investment returns.    (d) The positions listed in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be funded by the appropriation for the Treasurer of State.  (e) The board may make, amend, adopt, and enforce rules and policies to regulate board procedure and execute board functions.
AR Code § 19-3-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 3 - State Treasury Management|Subchapter 7 - State Board of Finance|§ 19-3-705. Employees — Qualifications, ethical standards, and background checks

 (a) An employee of the State Board of Finance or Treasurer of State listed in § 19-3-704(b) or § 19-3-704(c) or who handles State Treasury funds or participates in decisions or making recommendations concerning the deposit or investment of State Treasury funds:  (1) Shall meet minimum standards of expertise and experience established by the board;  (2) Shall not have a direct financial interest in a bank depository, investment depository, or securities broker; and  (3) Shall file on or before January 31 with the board for the preceding calendar year the written statement of financial interest required by § 21-8-701(d).    (b)  (1)  (A) The board shall obtain a state and federal criminal background check to be conducted by the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for:  (i) Each employee listed in § 19-3-704(b) or § 19-3-704(c); and  (ii) An employee or prospective employee of the board or Treasurer of State who handles or will handle State Treasury funds or participates or will participate in making decisions or recommendations concerning the deposit or investment of State Treasury funds.    (B) The background check shall be obtained on or before:  (i) September 1, 2013, for an existing employee; and  (ii) The start of employment for a prospective employee.      (2) The state and federal criminal background check shall conform to the applicable federal standards and shall include the taking of fingerprints.  (3) The employee or prospective employee shall sign a consent to the release of information for the state and federal criminal background check.  (4) The Treasurer of State shall be responsible for the payment of any fee associated with the state and federal criminal background check.  (5) Upon completion of the state and federal criminal background check, the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall forward to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State for review by the board all releasable information obtained concerning the employee or prospective employee.    (c) The board or Treasurer of State shall not employ an individual who has:  (1) Been convicted of a felony or a gambling offense in a state or federal court of the United States;  (2) Been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;  (3) Entered into a plea agreement to avoid felony prosecution;  (4) Been or is currently subject to an administrative order by the State Bank Department or State Securities Department;  (5) Failed without justification to file the statement of financial interest required by this section; or  (6) A conflict of interest that violates the board's policy established under § 19-3-704.
AR Code § 19-4-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-4-101. Title

 This chapter shall be referred to and may be cited as the “General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law”.
AR Code § 19-4-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-4-103. Penalty

 With respect to all matters for which penalties have not otherwise been provided in this act, any person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).
AR Code § 19-4-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-4-104. Rules

 The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State is empowered to make, amend, and enforce such reasonable rules, not inconsistent with law, as he or she shall deem necessary and proper to effectively carry out the provisions of this chapter and the public policy as set forth in § 19-4-102. Rules promulgated shall be published in an administrative procedures manual and distributed to the various state agencies.
AR Code § 19-4-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 19-4-106. Legislative staff consultation

 The Department of Finance and Administration shall consult with the Legislative Auditor and the director of the budget function of the Bureau of Legislative Research throughout each stage of planning and implementation for any new statewide accounting system. This required consultation and involvement is to ensure that those capabilities to provide the required services to members and committees of the General Assembly are incorporated into the system.
AR Code § 19-4-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 2 - Duties and Responsibilities Generally|§ 19-4-201. Authority of Governor

 (a) The Governor shall direct the execution of the state budget as approved by the General Assembly. The Governor or Governor-elect shall:  (1) Review the budget requests and estimates of resources;  (2) Evaluate long-range programs and consider possible alternatives to existing state agency programs, policies, and goals; and  (3) Formulate and recommend for consideration by the Legislative Council and the General Assembly a proposed comprehensive state budget of programs and proposed financing which shall include all estimated receipts and expenditures of the state government.    (b)  (1) Proposed expenditures shall not exceed estimated available resources. Should the Governor or Governor-elect propose increased taxes in order to finance all proposed programs, two (2) sets of budgets must be submitted to the Legislative Council and the General Assembly, one (1) set based on the resources available from the then-existing tax laws and another showing the additional expenditures proposed to be financed from recommended tax increases.  (2)  (A) Budget requests for administration and operation of the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the elective constitutional offices, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, the Office of the Arkansas Lottery, and the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission shall be submitted directly to the Legislative Council without any recommendation by the Governor.  (B) Each budget request submitted under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section shall:  (i) Include all of the information required for other public entities under this chapter;  (ii) Be in substantially the same format as budget requests for other public entities under this chapter; and  (iii) Include a detailed listing of any unappropriated funds, including without limitation the sources of the funds, the fund balances, and the expenditures of the funds for the previous fiscal year.        (c) In order to carry out the provisions of this section, the Governor or Governor-elect shall:  (1) Have the power, and it shall be his or her duty, to provide for hearings, if required, with the administrative head or any other persons having knowledge thereof, of any agency submitting a budget request in order for him or her to make his or her determinations and recommendations; and  (2) Appear or appoint a designated representative to appear before the General Assembly or any committees or interim committees thereof to present his or her recommendations for the forthcoming budgetary period.
AR Code § 19-4-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 2 - Duties and Responsibilities Generally|§ 19-4-203. Authority of General Assembly

 The General Assembly and the Joint Budget Committee shall:   (1) Consider the current programs and financial plan included in the budget requests and the proposed resources for financing recommended by the Governor or Governor-elect including proposed goals and policies, recommended budgets, revenue proposals, and long-range programs;  (2) Adopt or recommend programs and alternatives to the financial plan recommended by the Governor or Governor-elect as it deems appropriate;  (3) Adopt or recommend legislation to authorize implementation of a comprehensive program and financial plan;  (4) Provide for a postaudit of financial transactions, program performance, and execution of legislative policy decisions;  (5) Provide for hearings, if required, with the administrative head or any other persons having knowledge thereof of any state agency submitting a budget request, in order to make determinations and formulate recommendations;  (6) If found necessary, visit and inspect any agency; and  (7) Propose the form of appropriation bills and write or direct the writing thereof.
AR Code § 19-4-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 2 - Duties and Responsibilities Generally|§ 19-4-204. Recommendations by Governor

 (a) Budgetary Programs and Financial Plans.  (1) The Governor or Governor-elect shall formulate the programs and financial plans to be recommended to the Legislative Council and the General Assembly after considering the state agency-proposed programs and financial plans and other programs and alternatives he or she deems appropriate.  (2) The program and financial plan submitted by him or her shall include:  (A) His or her goals and policies;  (B) Recommended plans to implement the goals and policies;  (C) Recommended budgets for each year for which an appropriation is being requested; and  (D) Recommended revenue measures to finance the budget.      (b) Presentation to General Assembly.  (1) The Governor or Governor-elect shall present the proposed comprehensive program and financial plan to the Legislative Council for their timely consideration and in a message to a joint session of the General Assembly. The message shall be accompanied by an explanatory report which summarizes recommended goals, policies, plans, and appropriations.  (2) The explanatory report shall be furnished to each member of the General Assembly and each agency. The report shall contain the following information:  (A) The coordinated programs, goals, and objectives that the Governor or Governor-elect recommends to guide the decisions on program plans and budget appropriations;  (B) The program and budget recommendations of the Governor or Governor-elect for each year of the succeeding biennium;  (C) A summary of state receipts in the previous fiscal year, an estimate for the current fiscal year, and an estimate for each year of the succeeding biennium;  (D) A summary of expenditures during the last fiscal year, those estimated for the current fiscal year, and those recommended by the Governor or Governor-elect for each year for which appropriations are requested; and  (E) Any additional information which will facilitate understanding the Governor's or Governor-elect's proposed program and financial plan by the General Assembly and the public.
AR Code § 19-4-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 2 - Duties and Responsibilities Generally|§ 19-4-205. Legislative review

 The General Assembly, the Legislative Council, and the Joint Budget Committee shall consider the Governor's or Governor-elect's recommendations and determine the comprehensive program and financial plan to support the services to be provided the citizens of the state, while keeping authorized expenditures within the estimated receipts and other available resources.
AR Code § 19-4-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 2 - Duties and Responsibilities Generally|§ 19-4-206. Conservation of appropriations in changes of administration

 (a) Proportionate Amounts. In those instances in which any constitutional or elective official of the State of Arkansas is due to retire from office and another constitutional official is to take his or her place, the appropriations and funds provided by the General Assembly for the operation of any such office shall be conserved so as to provide his or her successor in office with a proportionate amount of available appropriations and funds for the remainder of the fiscal year during which the change of office takes place. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section it is provided that:  (1) No constitutional official shall cause, or cause to be incurred, any obligation or issue any voucher against the appropriations of his or her agency in excess of a true proportion which his or her time of service during the fiscal year of retirement bears to the fiscal year. For the purpose of establishing the time of service of any such official, the time of retirement shall be construed to be that established by the Arkansas Constitution and statutes of this state for the retirement of the constitutional and elective officials of this state;  (2)  (A) Within thirty (30) days after each general election, the Auditor of State shall notify all retiring constitutional officials that they will be required to file in his or her office a statement, duly sworn to, setting out:  (i) The total of all vouchers issued against the appropriations of the agency;  (ii) A list of all outstanding obligations; and  (iii) A detailed list of all proposed expenditures to be made prior to the time of retirement.    (B) In the event that the Auditor of State is retiring, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall notify the Auditor of State to file the aforementioned statement required of the Auditor of State with the office of the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State; and    (3) The Auditor of State shall not issue any warrant in payment of the voucher of any agency coming under the provisions of this section in excess of the proportion provided for in this section. The Auditor of State shall be liable under his or her official bond for issuing any such warrant in excess of such proportion. However, in cases of calamity or emergency, the Governor may, by proclamation, authorize any agency to exceed the limitations of this section. Under such conditions the Auditor of State and the disbursing officer shall be relieved of any liability under this section if, in making the proclamation, the Governor states the reasons for the emergency and the probable amount of the excess obligations which the agency is authorized to incur.    (b) Purpose. It is the purpose of this section to provide for the conservation of appropriations for the normal operations of agencies, and the provisions of this section are not applicable to appropriations for improvements or to special appropriations.
AR Code § 19-4-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 3 - Chief Fiscal Officer of the State|§ 19-4-301. Duties and responsibilities generally

 The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall carry out the following duties and responsibilities:   (1) Assist the Governor or Governor-elect in the preparation of the comprehensive program and financial plan, including the coordination and analysis of state agency programs, goals, and objectives;  (2) Develop procedures to produce the information needed for effective policy decision-making by the General Assembly and the Governor or Governor-elect;  (3) Assist agencies in developing their statement of goals and objectives, their preparation of program plans and budget requests, and their systems of evaluating and reporting of program performance;  (4) Provide the General Assembly or its interim committees with any information they may request;  (5) Between sessions of the General Assembly, keep the Legislative Council and any interim committees of the General Assembly that request this information informed of the actual expenditures of agencies as compared to their approved budgets and of the actual performance of these agencies as compared to that predicted in the program budget requests, along with the reasons for any deviations which exist; and  (6) Administer his or her responsibilities under the program budget provisions of this chapter so that the policy decisions and budget determinations of the General Assembly and Governor are effectively implemented.
AR Code § 19-4-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 3 - Chief Fiscal Officer of the State|§ 19-4-302. Budget information forms

 To accomplish his or her duties and responsibilities, the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration, in cooperation with the Legislative Council, shall design budget information forms so that comparative data of the last fiscal year, the current fiscal year, and the next biennium are presented so that state agencies can best express budgetary and program information that will be most useful to the Governor or Governor-elect and the General Assembly in order to facilitate program formulation, execution, and accountability by:   (1) Focusing attention upon the general character and relative importance of the program to be accomplished or upon the service to be rendered and what the program or service will cost;  (2) Employing functional classifications, where practical to do so, in order to present budgets by broad program categories;  (3) Presenting budget requests by organizational units;  (4) Grouping expenditures and budget estimates by major objects of expenditures;  (5) Stating goals and objectives of agency programs;  (6) Presenting proposed plans to implement the goals and objectives, including proposed modification of existing program services and establishment of new program services, and the estimated resources required to implement the goals and objectives;  (7) Including a report of the receipts during the prior fiscal year, an estimate of the receipts during the current fiscal year, and an estimate for each year of the succeeding biennium;  (8) Presenting requested legislation required to implement the proposed programs and financial plans; and  (9) Supplying any other information necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
AR Code § 19-4-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 3 - Chief Fiscal Officer of the State|§ 19-4-303. Budget estimates

 The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration, in cooperation with the Legislative Council, shall:   (1) Prepare a budget calendar or time schedule so that the submission and presentation of budget estimates will be accomplished within the desired time limits; and  (2) Prepare a budget instructional manual to establish uniformity for presentation of budget estimates by state agencies.
AR Code § 19-4-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 19 - Public Finance|Chapter 4 - State Accounting and Budgetary Procedures|Subchapter 3 - Chief Fiscal Officer of the State|§ 19-4-305. Preliminary budget report

 The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall prepare the described preliminary budget report so that it shall include the following:   (1) The budget requests as submitted by the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the elective constitutional officers, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, and the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission;  (2) The budget requests of all other state agencies, as submitted by each agency, together with the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State's analysis of the budget estimates and the executive recommendations;  (3) A recapitulation and summary of all budget information as required in this subchapter and the recommendations of the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State; and  (4) A detailed statement of the revenues and other sources of income of the state government for the past complete fiscal year, the estimated revenues of the state under existing laws, and the Governor's proposals for revisions in any tax laws necessary to balance the budget.