2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 62. Public Finance › §62-34.49. Allotment of appropriations - Exemption of Legislature.

A. Appropriations and/or federal funds shall be allotted for each agency as provided by the language of the legislative appropriation and other applicable state law. Items may be allotted on a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual basis upon the written request of the agency and the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
B. The request officer for each agency shall present the proposed classification of the expenditures for that agency in such manner as may be required by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
C. Each agency shall be required to identify those items that are for capital purposes in keeping with the definition of capital projects promulgated by the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission. Requests for capital appropriations and an agency's original budget request shall be for capital projects that have been submitted to the Long-Range Capital Planning Commission for review.
D. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall review the requested allotments with respect to the agency budget with each agency. The Director may require the agency to change such allotments before approving them, if it is deemed necessary, reserving a sufficient balance in the appropriation to finance the operations of the agency for the remainder of any fiscal year.
E. At the end of any fiscal year, the entire amount appropriated to any agency must be allotted to the agency by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, except where the estimated budget resources during any fiscal year are insufficient to pay all of the appropriations of the state in full for such year. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall not allot to any agency during any fiscal year, an amount which will be in excess of the amount of revenue collected and allocated to appropriations made to such agency.
F. In the event of a failure of revenue, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall control the allotment to prevent obligations being incurred in excess of the revenue to be collected. However, within each state fund where a revenue failure occurs, the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall make all reductions apply to each state agency or special appropriation made by the State Legislature, in the ratio that its total appropriation for that fiscal year bears to the total of all appropriations for that fiscal year, as provided in Section 23 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution.
G. An allotment may be approved for any item for the entire year or may be approved on a monthly, quarterly, or semiannual basis, but in no case shall the aggregate of such allotments for any agency exceed the total appropriation made available to such agency for the fiscal year to which they apply. Each agency's request for appropriation allotments shall show the amount required to finance each item of the request for the entire year and on a quarterly basis within each fiscal year.
H. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall review each allotment request for the purpose of determining whether:
1. The itemized requests are in accordance with the agency budget;
2. The accounting classification is sufficient to reflect the purposes for which the expenditures are to be made;
3. The current financial requirements of the agency justify the monthly or quarterly allotment, reserving a sufficient balance to finance the remaining months or quarters; and
4. The realization of the estimated revenues is sufficient to allow the allotments to be made.
I. The Legislature shall be exempt from submitting any agency budget or allotment request.
Added by Laws 1947, p. 372, § 9, emerg. eff. Feb. 25, 1947. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 123, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995; Laws 2009, c. 441, § 29, eff. July 1, 2009. Renumbered from § 41.9 of this title by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 376.