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2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter I. General Provisions › § 6301. Definitions.

§ 6301. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Agency” includes every board, department, bureau, commission, person or group of persons or other authority created and now existing or hereafter to be created to execute, supervise, control and/or administer governmental functions under the laws of this State or to perform such other duties as may be prescribed or to whom any moneys are appropriated under any budget appropriation act or supplemental appropriation act or any other act which authorizes and requires any department to collect and/or use any taxes, fees, licenses, permits or other receipts for services or otherwise for the performance of any function of or related to or supported in whole or in part by the laws of this State, and/or created to administer any laws providing for the collection of taxes, fees, permits, licenses or other forms of receipts from any sources whatsoever for the use of the State or any agency of the State, except the judiciary and the courts of the State.
(2) “Anticipated expenditure” includes any items included in the budget which are estimated or proposed to be expended by any agency at any future time.
(3) “Budget” includes the complete financial plan of the State as evidenced by all appropriations and allowances made and estimates of revenue approved by the General Assembly, including, in addition to the general budget of appropriations adopted by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor, all other appropriations and allowances authorized by law which have been or shall be made to any agency of this State which is supported in whole or in part out of the revenues, taxes, licenses, fees, permits, fines and from other sources including any agency which is empowered by statute to collect and expend revenues by the use of special funds by whatever name known whether or not specifically appropriated by the General Assembly, and includes the budgets and the revenues and expenditures of all agencies to which moneys are appropriated by supplementary appropriations or otherwise.
(4) “Expenditures” includes any outlay of public moneys by authority of any law of this State and includes the expenditure of any appropriation authorized by the General Assembly of the State.
(5) “Grant-in-aid” includes an appropriation of the public money from the General Fund for a public purpose to any county, municipality, corporation, private agency or person.
42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §§  7, 10;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6301;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  2;  63 Del. Laws, c. 196, §  1;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter I. General Provisions › § 6302. Composition of the Budget Commission.

§ 6302. Composition of the Budget Commission.
There shall be a Budget Commission which shall consist of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer and the Secretary of Finance.
42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §  2;  43 Del. Laws, c. 284;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6311;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  5;  57 Del. Laws, c. 582, §  4;  59 Del. Laws, c. 378, §  9;  65 Del. Laws, c. 219, §  1;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter II. Budget Commission › § 6312. Organization; powers and duties.

§ 6312. Organization; powers and duties.
(a) The Governor shall be the Chairperson of the Budget Commission. The Budget Commission shall meet upon the call of the Chairperson to review for approval agency requests presented to the Commission as prescribed by the laws of this State.
(b) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall serve as the Secretary of the Budget Commission. In said capacity the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall:
(1) Attend all meetings of the Budget Commission and keep, or cause to be kept a true and complete record of the proceedings of such meetings.
(2) Keep correct and complete records of account, showing accurately at all times the financial condition of the Budget Commission.
(3) Sign all minutes, contracts, agreements and other documents approved by the Budget Commission except in those instances wherein the Chairperson of the Budget Commission signs those documents.
(c) The Budget Commission shall advise the Governor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget concerning all of the powers and duties vested in the office of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, specifically including the preparation of the proposed budget as set forth in §§ 6333 and 6334 of this title.
42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §  3;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6312;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  3;  69 Del. Laws, c. 64, §  53;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  74 Del. Laws, c. 365, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  2;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6331. Data on legislative and judicial expenses.

§ 6331. Data on legislative and judicial expenses.
(a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine the actual expenses of each last preceding legislative session.
(b) On or before November 15, annually, estimates of the financial needs of the state judiciary for the ensuing fiscal year shall be furnished to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget by the Clerk of the Supreme Court and certified by him or her. These estimates shall include without change, salaries of the state judiciary as fixed by law; the estimates of other requirements for the state judiciary for the ensuing fiscal year shall be included as designated to the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
(c) All of the data relative to the legislative branch of the government and the state judiciary shall be for the Office of Management and Budget Director's information and guidance in estimating the total financial needs of the State for the ensuing fiscal year, but none of these estimates shall be subject to revision or review by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and must be included in the budget report as prepared by it.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  6;  Code 1935, §  5404;  42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §  6;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6331;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  4;  67 Del. Laws, c. 47, §  73;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(13);
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6332. Hearings on estimates; attendance by Governor-elect.

§ 6332. Hearings on estimates; attendance by Governor-elect.
(a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide, by the giving of such notice as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget deems necessary, for public hearings on any and all estimates to be included in the budget, which hearings shall be held beginning not later than November 15 of each year. These hearings shall be open to the public and to the press and any citizens or authorized representatives of any organization, or group of citizens, may attend these hearings and be heard upon any subject matter properly in review. The head, or authorized representative, of any agency of the State receiving or asking financial aid may attend and be heard in explanation of any request for financial aid contained in any estimate submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
(b) In the years of the gubernatorial election, the Governor-elect may sit at these hearings and ask such questions and require such information upon the estimates under review and revision as the Governor-elect deems proper. The Governor-elect may also prepare a statement of any recommendation or suggestion in connection with the proposed budget and such statement shall be presented to the General Assembly simultaneously with the presentation of the budget bill.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  7;  Code 1935, §  5405;  42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §  6;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6332;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  4;  67 Del. Laws, c. 47, §  74;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(13);
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6333. Date of completion of estimate review; power of revision.

§ 6333. Date of completion of estimate review; power of revision.
(a) On or before December 15, annually, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall complete a review and revision of the estimates of all agencies of the State asking or receiving financial aid.
(b) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may, in making the review under subsection (a) of this section, revise, by increasing or decreasing, any estimate submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, except estimates of the judiciary and the General Assembly. In the report required under § 6334 of this title, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall indicate, where each revision is made, together with the reasons for each revision.
(c) The review required under this section shall include the appropriation to the OPEB Fund required under § 5544(c)(2) of this title.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  8;  Code 1935, §  5406;  42 Del. Laws, c. 204, §  6;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6333;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  4;  67 Del. Laws, c. 47, §  75;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(13);  84 Del. Laws, c. 100, § 2;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6335. Changes in budget plan by Governor; submission of proposed budget and Budget Appropriation Bill to General Assembly.

§ 6335. Changes in budget plan by Governor; submission of proposed budget and Budget Appropriation Bill to General Assembly.
(a) (1) The Governor, upon receipt of the report of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under § 6334 of this title, may make such changes in the report as the Governor may deem necessary or desirable in accordance with the Governor's own best judgment and conclusion and shall submit the budget report as prepared by the Governor based upon the report of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to each House of the General Assembly, on or before February 1 of each year.
(2) At the same time the Governor submits the proposed budget, the Governor shall submit copies of a tentative bill for all proposed appropriations for the budget, clearly itemized and properly classified for the ensuing fiscal year. This bill shall be known as the “Budget Appropriation Bill.”
(3) The Budget Appropriation Bill shall include the appropriation to the OPEB Fund required under § 5544(c)(2) of this title.
(b) The budget itself shall be in such form that it can readily be analyzed. The Budget Appropriation Bill, together with the Governor's message and all data accompanying it, shall be a public document and shall be printed, duplicated or otherwise mechanically reproduced as soon as presented, and copies thereof shall be furnished to each member of the General Assembly, to each state agency and to all of the newspapers published in the State and it shall be given such other publicity as the Governor deems proper. All dollar amounts in the Budget Appropriation Bill shall be stated in thousands of dollars, rounded to the nearest $100.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  10;  Code 1935, §  5408;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6335;  54 Del. Laws, c. 39, §§  4, 6;  60 Del. Laws, c. 1, §  1;  62 Del. Laws, c. 68, §  45;  67 Del. Laws, c. 47, §  77;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(13);  84 Del. Laws, c. 100, § 4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6336. Consideration of the budget and Budget Appropriation Bill by a joint committee of the General Assembly.

§ 6336. Consideration of the budget and Budget Appropriation Bill by a joint committee of the General Assembly.
The standing committees of each House in charge of the Budget Appropriation Bill shall sit jointly in open session while considering the budget and the Budget Appropriation Bill and they shall begin such joint meetings within 5 days after the budget and the Budget Appropriation Bill have been submitted to the General Assembly by the Governor. This joint committee may cause the attendance of heads or responsible representatives of the agencies of the State asking for financial aid and compel the furnishing of such information and the answering of such questions as the joint committee shall require, and to these sessions all persons interested in the estimates under consideration shall be admitted with the right to be heard. The Governor, or the Governor's representative, and the Governor-elect shall have the right to sit at these public hearings and be heard on all matters coming before the joint committee.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  11;  Code 1935, §  5409;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6336;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6337. Changes in Budget Appropriation Bill by General Assembly; limitation.

§ 6337. Changes in Budget Appropriation Bill by General Assembly; limitation.
The General Assembly may increase, decrease or eliminate items in the Budget Appropriation Bill in any way that is not contrary to the Constitution of the State, except as hereinafter provided, but neither House shall consider further or special appropriations, except in case of emergency, which fact shall be clearly stated in the appropriation bill therefor, until the Budget Appropriation Bill shall have been finally acted upon by both Houses. No items providing for appropriations for payment of interest or principal due on state debt shall be decreased or eliminated. The total budget appropriation items may not be increased in the aggregate to a point where they would exceed the state revenue from all sources as estimated in the budget.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  12;  Code 1935, §  5410;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6337;  52 Del. Laws, c. 198.;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6338. Amendment of the Bill by the Governor before final action by the General Assembly.

§ 6338. Amendment of the Bill by the Governor before final action by the General Assembly.
The Governor may, before final action thereon by the General Assembly, amend or supplement the Budget Appropriation Bill to correct an error or oversight or in case of an emergency, by delivering such an amendment or supplement to both Houses. The amendment or supplement shall thereby become a part of the Budget Appropriation Bill as an addition to the items of the Bill or as a modification or substitution for any item of the Bill such amendment or supplement may affect.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  14;  Code 1935, §  5412;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6338;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6339. Supplementary appropriations; limitation.

§ 6339. Supplementary appropriations; limitation.
Any further or special appropriations shall be known as supplementary appropriations. Every such appropriation shall be embodied in a separate bill limited to some single work, object or purpose therein stated and called herein a “Supplementary Appropriation Bill.” Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill, shall, by its provisions, provide or designate the source from which the money therein appropriated is to be derived. No Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be passed, if when added to the appropriations already authorized, the aggregate appropriations exceed in amount the state revenues from all sources as set forth in the budget.
37 Del. Laws, c. 81, §  13;  Code 1935, §  5411;  29 Del. C. 1953, §  6339;  52 Del. Laws, c. 198;  67 Del. Laws, c. 47, §  78;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III. Budget Appropriation Bill › § 6341. Grants-in-aid.

§ 6341. Grants-in-aid.
No appropriation for a grant-in-aid shall be made otherwise than pursuant to an act by the General Assembly, passed with the concurrence of 3/4 of all the members elected to each House.
63 Del. Laws, c. 196, §  2;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III-A. Capital Appropriations Act › § 6342. Preparation of annual capital budget.

§ 6342. Preparation of annual capital budget.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prepare, and amend as necessary, a program of state public works, major capital improvement projects and other facilities undertaken or recommended to be undertaken by the State, or any of the authorities or other instrumentalities of the state government. Such program shall be submitted as the annual capital budget to the Governor at such time as it shall be deemed appropriate for submission to the General Assembly. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall maintain a report on the status of all capital projects funded by any debt offering issued by the State or by any of the authorities or other instrumentalities of state government.
63 Del. Laws, c. 189, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  4;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §§  16(5), 21(13), 27;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III-B. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund › § 6343. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund.

§ 6343. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund.
(a) A nonappropriated special fund is created to be known as the “Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund,” hereafter referred to in this subchapter as “Fund.”
(b) The Fund shall be interest earning with such interest credited to the Fund.
(c) The Fund shall be expended for the advanced planning of proposed public facilities in the State, including, but not limited to, the cost of architectural sketches, general site plans, preliminary engineering, general design services, legal, accounting and consulting services or such other services as may be deemed appropriate. Public facilities shall include public schools, health-care facilities, public safety and correctional institutions, libraries (if co-located) and other public buildings.
(d) The Fund may be expended for earnest money of up to 10 percent for the acquisition of real property (including any options to purchase and any improvements thereon) by state agencies, reorganized school districts and vocational-technical school districts. The Fund may not be expended for highway right-of-way acquisition.
29 Del. C. 1953, §  4921;  55 Del. Laws, c. 430, §  2;  60 Del. Laws, c. 685, §  1;  63 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  10;  63 Del. Laws, c. 189, §  3(a);  67 Del. Laws, c. 285, §§  15(b)-(e);  69 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  7;  74 Del. Laws, c. 367, §§  5-8;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III-B. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund › § 6345. Reversion of unused funds.

§ 6345. Reversion of unused funds.
Any moneys for advanced planning or for advanced real property acquisition provided by the Budget Commission to a state agency, reorganized school district or vocational-technical school district which shall not be used by the agency or district within 36 months shall be refunded to the Budget Commission to be redeposited in the Fund.
29 Del. C. 1953, §  4923;  55 Del. Laws, c. 430, §  2;  63 Del. Laws, c. 189, §  3(a);  67 Del. Laws, c. 285, §  15(i);  69 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  7;  74 Del. Laws, c. 367, §  12;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III-B. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund › § 6346. Reimbursement of the Fund.

§ 6346. Reimbursement of the Fund.
(a) Upon the funding of a capital project for which advance planning funds or advance real property acquisition funds have been provided from the Fund, a refund shall be made to the Fund from such funding by the State Treasurer from the appropriation made or other source of funds provided for the public facility or real property.
(b) In the event that a capital project, for which advanced planning funds have been provided from the Fund is not included in a capital improvement act within 3 years, the Budget Commission may declare the project inactive and request the State's bond issuing officers to reimburse the Fund from the Bond Reversion Account, § 7418 of this title notwithstanding.
(c) If federal funds are received as reimbursement for any real property purchased with the Fund, such moneys shall be deposited as a refund to the Fund.
(d) In the event real property is purchased and then plans for utilization of the site are abandoned, the state agency, reorganized school district, or vocational-technical school district, with approval of the Budget Commission, may sell the real property pursuant to Chapter 17 of Title 14 or Chapter 94 of this title, as applicable, and shall deposit the receipts to the Fund.
29 Del. C. 1953, §  4924;  55 Del. Laws, c. 430, §  2;  62 Del. Laws, c. 407, §  7;  63 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  10;  63 Del. Laws, c. 189, §  3(a);  67 Del. Laws, c. 285, §§  15(j)-(l);  69 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  7;  74 Del. Laws, c. 367, §§  13, 14;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63. BUDGET COMMISSION AND APPROPRIATIONS › Subchapter III-B. Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund › § 6347. Authorization for sale of school district bonds.

§ 6347. Authorization for sale of school district bonds.
In the case of a school district, use of funds authorized by this subchapter to purchase real property may constitute authorization for the sale of district bonds by the State after referendum as provided in § 7506 of this title and after the inclusion of said authorization in a subsequent state capital improvement program.
29 Del. C. 1953, §  4935;  56 Del. Laws, c. 128, §  1;  63 Del. Laws, c. 179, §  11;  63 Del. Laws, c. 189, §  4(a);  69 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  7;  74 Del. Laws, c. 367, §  16;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6302A. Director; appointment; salary; bond; employees and assistants.

§ 6302A. Director; appointment; salary; bond; employees and assistants.
(a) There shall be a Director of the Office of Management and Budget, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as “Director,” to be appointed by and to serve at the pleasure of the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director shall be paid a salary established by the Governor within the limitation of the funds appropriated therefore.
(b) The Director may employ such employees as may be required to carry out the duties of this office and may fix the salaries of such employees within the limitations of the funds appropriated therefore.
(c) In the event of a vacancy in the position of Director, including the death, resignation, temporary incapacity or removal of the incumbent and prior to the appointment of a successor, the Governor may appoint any qualified individual to serve as Acting Director.
(d) The Director may call upon any other state officer for such assistance as the Director may require and may employ such special help as it may require to carry out this chapter. The Director shall fix the compensation of such persons as may be employed to be paid out of such fund as the General Assembly may appropriate for that purpose.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6304A. Limitation on power to investigate.

§ 6304A. Limitation on power to investigate.
The Director shall not investigate or require reports from the judiciary or from the courts of this State, from any private hospital, from the General Assembly, from any local or special school district respecting locally raised (non-state) revenues, from any fire company, or concerning the burial of indigent veterans, or from Kent and Sussex Fair Association, from the Libraries of Municipalities, from the Delaware Historical Society, from the American Legion, from the United Spanish War Veterans, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, from Disabled American Veterans, from Paralyzed Veterans of America, from Vietnam Veterans of America or from other similar institutions not directly under the jurisdiction of the administrative or executive authority of this State.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6305A. Exemptions.

§ 6305A. Exemptions.
The following positions set forth in this section shall be exempt from Chapter 59 of this title:
(1) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(2) Management Services Administrator;
(3) Facilities Management Administrator;
(4) Government Support Services Administrator; and
(5) Administrator of Budget Development, Planning and Administration.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;  81 Del. Laws, c. 66, §  5;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6306A. Management Services.

§ 6306A. Management Services.
(a) The Management Services Section of the Office of Management and Budget is hereby established, having the powers, duties and functions as follows:
(1) Administer and coordinate the recordkeeping, fiscal affairs, information technology, statistics, accounting, budgeting, personnel and other general services for the Office, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may deem necessary, for the proper, efficient and economical operation of the Office;
(2) Co-ordinate such general services and business administration with departments, agencies and offices of this State, other states and the federal government; and
(3) Perform special studies and reports and direct services of the Office to coordinate the services of the Office with other departments, agencies and offices of this State.
(b) The Management Services Administrator shall assume such other powers, duties, and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this State.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6311A. Budget Development, Planning and Administration.

§ 6311A. Budget Development, Planning and Administration.
(a) The Budget Development, Planning and Administration Section of the Office of Management and Budget is hereby established, having the powers, duties and functions as follows:
(1) Oversees the preparation, presentation and implementation of the state's operating and capital budgets;
(2) Directs the adaptation and implementation of effective fiscal and management policies and procedures;
(3) Manages the analysis of federal budgetary and financial issues including the administrative functions of the Delaware State Clearinghouse Committee; and
(4) Provides management direction to the Office of State Planning Coordination on planning policy direction and the analysis of potential impacts.
(b) The Administrator of the Budget Development, Planning and Administration Section shall assume such other powers, duties and functions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may assign which are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of this State.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6312A. Functions prior to July 1, 2005.

§ 6312A. Functions prior to July 1, 2005.
The Office of Management and Budget, through appropriate divisions, subdivisions and offices, shall have the power to perform and shall be responsible for the performance of all the powers, duties and functions vested in the Division of Facilities Management, Division of Support Services, Division of Graphics and Printing, and the State Architect within the former Department of Administrative Services immediately prior to July 1, 2005, and which are not otherwise specifically assigned to the Office of Management and Budget by this chapter, excepting only those powers, duties and functions expressly vested in or retained by any such person, department, board, commission or agency.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6313A. Appeals.

§ 6313A. Appeals.
Any and all rights of appeal now existing by law, with respect to any act or acts constituting the exercise of any function or functions transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget or to any division or subdivision thereof, shall continue to exist with respect to such act or acts as hereafter performed by the Office of Management and Budget or by the division, subdivision or office to which such function is transferred, and each such appeal shall be perfected in the manner heretofore provided by law.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6314A. Transfers and continuity.

§ 6314A. Transfers and continuity.
(a) All books, records, papers, maps, charts, plans and other material including, but not limited to, any equipment in the possession of any agency of the State and used in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget shall, on July 1, 2005, be delivered into the custody of the said Office. All investigations, petitions, hearings and legal proceedings pending before or instituted by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and not concluded prior to July 1, 2005, shall continue unabated and remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the passage of this chapter and, where necessary, may be completed before, by or in the name of the Office. All orders, rules and regulations made by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and which govern such functions, and which are in effect on July 1, 2005, shall remain in full force and effect until revoked or modified in accordance with law by the Office. All contracts and obligations of any agency made or undertaken in the performance of a function transferred to the Office by this chapter and being in force on July 1, 2005, shall, notwithstanding this chapter, remain in full force and effect and be performed by the Office.
(b) Employees of any agency whose functions are consistent with and have been transferred to the Office of Management and Budget by this chapter shall continue and be deemed to be the employees of the said Office on July 1, 2005, and, where applicable, with all the benefits accrued as merit employees as of July 1, 2005.
(c) All definitions and references to any commission, board, department, council or agency which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring and relating to the Office of Management and Budget as created and established by this chapter.
(d) All definitions and references to any director, commissioner, executive secretary, commission, board or council member or other similar person which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring or relating to such person or persons and their powers, duties and functions as established and created by this chapter.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6315A. Misnomer in donation.

§ 6315A. Misnomer in donation.
Any misnomer shall not defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise or bequest to the Office of Management and Budget or any predecessor agency thereof if it sufficiently appears by the will, conveyance or other writing that the party making the same intended to pass and convey thereby to the Office or to any commission, board, department, authority, council or agency, to which, by this chapter, the powers, duties and functions have been transferred to the Office, the estate or interest therein expressed or described.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 63A. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET › § 6316A. Supremacy.

§ 6316A. Supremacy.
All other laws or parts of laws now in effect inconsistent with this chapter are repealed, superseded, modified or amended so far as necessary to conform to and give full force and effect to this chapter.
75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  4;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6409. Judicial.

§ 6409. Judicial.
The fiscal year in which bills are received will be the factor in determining the chargeable fiscal year for the Administrative Office of the Courts for payments to court-appointed, noncontract attorneys for billings that span multiple fiscal years.
67 Del. Laws, c. 250, §  1;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6410. Executive department.

§ 6410. Executive department.
(a) In the event that the amount authorized in the appropriated special fund budget in § 1 of the Budget Appropriation Bill for the Office of Management and Budget, Pensions for Contractual Services (investment expenses) is insufficient, the appropriated special fund budget may be amended to adjust for such insufficiency upon request of the Board of Pension Trustees and approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Controller General.
(b) Any agency with classified full-time equivalent positions filled or unfilled paid from funds other than those appropriated from the General Fund of the State shall pay to the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Human Resources, from the special funds, a prorated share of the expense of the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Human Resources, as approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Controller General. Such payments shall be used by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Human Resources to supplement the funds appropriated to the Office and Department from the General Fund of the State in the annual Appropriations Act.
(c) The sums appropriated in a fiscal year to Criminal Justice Council for criminal justice planning grants to state agencies to provide funds to match grants from the federal government, which are not disbursed on June 30 of the fiscal year appropriated, shall continue to be available on a matching basis for the life of each criminal justice program grant, or for 3 fiscal years, whichever first occurs. Any unexpended funds appropriated from the General Fund of the State which remain unexpended or unencumbered shall revert to the General Fund of the State.
67 Del. Laws, c. 250, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 64, §  50;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §§  20(6), 21(13);  82 Del. Laws, c. 64, § 69;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6411. Department of Technology and Information.

§ 6411. Department of Technology and Information.
All agencies are directed to remit payment for services rendered by the Department of Technology and Information within 30 days of receipt of invoice. Services may include, but are not limited to, postal metering, distribution supplies, telecommunication and telephone services, professional services, and data processing services.
If a prompt payment problem exists, the Department of Technology and Information may require all agencies and school districts receiving services to make monthly estimated payments toward their invoice. The estimated payments should be equal to the average of the last three months of reconciled payments or based on a schedule established by the department. The department will continue to be responsible for the actual payments to telephone companies and other vendors. In addition, the department will be responsible for the reconciliation of accounts with the user agencies and school districts.
76 Del. Laws, c. 280, §  116;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6425. Department of Finance.

§ 6425. Department of Finance.
(a) The Department of Finance, Division of Revenue, is authorized to maintain an appropriated special fund dedicated to the collection of delinquent taxes. The positions authorized to be funded through this account and all associated expenditures made from this account shall be for the purpose of collection of delinquent taxes. All collections on cases which have been referred to the Division's Bureau of Tax Collections shall be deposited to this special fund until the amount deposited shall reach $350,000. Unencumbered balances on June 30 of each fiscal year, in excess of $50,000, shall be deposited into the General Fund.
(b) The Director of the Division of Revenue shall submit to the Controller General a report detailing expenditures from this account and revenues generated as a result of expenditures from the account. Said report shall be submitted by January 1 of each year for the preceding fiscal year.
67 Del. Laws, c. 250, §  1;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6435. Department of Health and Social Services.

§ 6435. Department of Health and Social Services.
(a) If, at any time during the fiscal year, there should be a temporary delay in receiving federal matching funds for the TANF Program within the Department of Health and Social Services, such funds as may be required to assure the timely distribution of the public assistance checks shall be advanced and shall be paid by the State Treasurer from the General Fund. The Department of Health and Social Services shall promptly reimburse the General Fund upon receipt of the federal matching funds. However, there shall not be an advance of funds for the purpose described above, if all such previous advancements have not been fully reimbursed.
(b) The Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health is able to bill for additional Medicaid revenue due to a waiver of the Institution for Mental Diseases exclusion, as part of the Medicaid Managed Care waiver. This additional revenue shall be deposited to the General Fund, and the Division shall make every effort to ensure that these bills are submitted to the appropriate entities in an expeditious manner.
(c) The Division of Social Services is permitted to use Title XIX Federal Programs (Medicaid) funds when necessary to reimburse the federal government for its portion of overpayments not collected within 60 days of identification. When such overpayments are collected, the funds shall be deposited back into the Division's Medicaid Non-State account.
(d) The Division of Social Services is authorized to establish bank accounts to advance funds from the Employment and Training Program to clients or vendors in a timely manner. These advances are to be for supportive services or welfare diversion services in the nature of clothing and transportation allowances and other services to advance client self-sufficiency, as proposed in Delaware's A Better Chance Welfare Reform Program.
(e) Members of the Council on Hispanic Affairs shall serve without compensation, except that they may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incident to their duties not to exceed $500 annually.
(f) The Division of State Service Centers is authorized to collect and deposit tenant user fees from its 14 facilities throughout the State to the holding account entitled Facility Reimbursement. These fees are charged to partially offset the costs of service center operations.
(g) Appropriations for emergency assistance within the Division of State Service Centers may be used for programs of longer than 30 days' duration.
(h) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Delaware Code, state employee recognition funds may be used pursuant to existing guidelines to include the recognition of volunteers and other nonstate employees at the discretion of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services.
67 Del. Laws, c. 250, §  1;  73 Del. Laws, c. 310, §  16;  76 Del. Laws, c. 280, §  166;  81 Del. Laws, c. 367, § 5;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6436. Delaware Health Statistics Program.

§ 6436. Delaware Health Statistics Program.
Section 1 of the Budget Appropriation Bill provides an appropriation in appropriated special funds and 3 positions in health planning (35-01-30) for the purpose of operating a Delaware Health Statistics Program which would collect, maintain and analyze health-related data to assist the health community in planning, administering and evaluating the quality, quantity and appropriate combination of health services.
Revenues for the purpose of funding this Program shall be derived from the sale of copies of vital statistics records for birth, death and marriage certificates and shall be deposited in a holding account. In February 1986, the Department of Health and Social Services, under a separate provision, raised the fee for such records. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 6102 of this title and § 3132 of Title 16, the Internal Program Unit shall be allowed to retain and expend only the portion of the fee above the amount of $2.50 per copy up to the appropriation limit. The balance shall continue to be deposited to the General Fund.
68 Del. Laws, c. 84, §  107;  70 Del. Laws, c. 149, §  218;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64. BUDGET APPROPRIATION BILL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6437. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

§ 6437. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
The Division of Fish and Wildlife is authorized to establish, maintain and administer:
(1) An interest-bearing, nonappropriated special fund known as the Delaware Marsh Management and Maintenance Trust, as allowed by conditions of the DNREC/PSE&G Settlement Agreement of March 23, 1995, and further allowed by the subsequent Settlement Agreement of June 24, 2001. The interest income from this trust account will be dedicated to implement the Settlement Agreement's provisions to enhance or restore tidal wetlands habitats for coastal fish and wildlife resources along Delaware Bay and River in Delaware, and to maintain such tidal wetlands habitat enhancements or restoration in perpetuity, as partial compensation for natural resource losses caused by past, ongoing and future operation of the PSE&G Salem Nuclear Generating Station.
(2) A nonappropriated special fund for administration of the dedicated interest earned on the fund established above, with said dedicated interest to be expended to help support or implement compensatory tidal wetlands habitat enhancements or restorations and associated maintenance activities referred to in paragraph (1) of this section.
76 Del. Laws, c. 280, §  254;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64A. BOND AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ACT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6403A. Definitions.

§ 6403A. Definitions.
As used in this chapter the terms “department” and “agency” shall mean those entities receiving an appropriation in the Annual Bond and Capital Improvement Act.
72 Del. Laws, c. 489, §  25;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64A. BOND AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ACT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6404A. Department of Safety and Homeland Security.

§ 6404A. Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
(a) The State Police shall have the primary authority to enforce traffic laws on all highways of the State, defined by the Department of Transportation as either full access control or partial access control, including but not limited to Route 1, Route 141 and the Puncheon Run Connector from Route 1 to Route 13, within municipalities in the State unless the State Police have, by specific signed agreement, authorized another jurisdiction to enforce traffic laws on such highways.
(b) Notwithstanding Chapters 63 and 69 of this title or any other statutory provision to the contrary, the Department of Safety and Homeland Security, Division of Communications is hereby granted exclusive authority to enter into agreements with private telecommunications companies to lease or license space for communication facilities on telecommunications towers and other facilities constructed for the 800 MHz Digital Trunked Radio System. The revenues received by the Department of Safety and Homeland Security Division of Communications under these agreements shall be deposited in a special fund and used for maintenance or other expenses associated with the 800 MHz Digital Trunked Radio System.
72 Del. Laws, c. 489, §  25;  73 Del. Laws, c. 95, §  83;  73 Del. Laws, c. 224, §  8;  73 Del. Laws, c. 312, §  213;  74 Del. Laws, c. 110, §  138;  74 Del. Laws, c. 128, §  7;  77 Del. Laws, c. 427, §§  1, 2;
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 64A. BOND AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ACT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES › § 6406A. Department of Education.

§ 6406A. Department of Education.
(a) Purchase orders and change orders for school construction projects which are coded to a different school construction project line within the applicable school district will be approved upon review and determination by the Department of Education and Office of Management and Budget that full compliance of § 2.4.3B(1) and (2) of the State of Delaware School Construction Manual has been met. All such purchase orders or change orders must reference the appropriate projects, lines of authorization and appropriate section of the School Construction Manual.
(b) The Department of Technology and Information is prohibited from establishing or maintaining state-supported e-mail addresses for public school students except as may be deemed necessary by the local school district. This section shall not preclude local school districts from providing student access to e-mail with local discretionary funds either through their own e-mail server or through a contract with the Department of Technology and Information.
72 Del. Laws, c. 489, §  25;  74 Del. Laws, c. 308, §  12;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(13);
2023 Delaware Code › Title 29 - State Government › Chapter 65. BUDGET AND FISCAL REGULATIONS FOR STATE AGENCIES › § 6501. Definitions.

§ 6501. Definitions.
(a) As used in this chapter, the term “agency” shall have the same meaning as defined in § 6301 of this title.
(b) As used in this chapter the term “agency agent” shall mean an authorized official of the agency or the architect or construction manager designated pursuant to the public works contract documents.
(c) As used in this chapter, the term “date of submission” shall mean either 2 days after the document is postmarked by the United States Postal Service or the date the agency agent receives the hand-delivered document, verified by the agency agent's receipt or the date affixed to the document by the agency agent's facsimile machine.
(d) As used in this chapter, term “final completion” shall mean final completion of the work as described in the public works contract documents.
(e) As used in this chapter, the term “reasonable evidence” shall mean “information from a reliable source.”
(f) As used in this chapter, the term “Secretary of Finance” shall mean the Secretary of Finance or a duly authorized designee.
29 Del. C. 1953, §  6501;  57 Del. Laws, c. 741, §  1A;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  73 Del. Laws, c. 364, §§  1, 2;