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Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 39, § 173. Expenditures

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. (1) The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration shall jointly determine the expenditures to be used in the base-line projection according to the procedures contained in this Section.

(2) The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration shall meet in January of each year to establish the expenditure figures.

(3) The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration may meet at any other time to revise the expenditure figures as conditions warrant.

B. For the current fiscal year, the expenditures shall be the total authorized appropriations from money available for appropriation as contained in the most recently approved budget status report which is established under the provisions of R.S. 39:75.

C. For the ensuing fiscal year, the expenditures shall be the sum of the continuation budgets, included but not limited to debt service on all debt obligations as established by the division of administration and as further modified, if necessary, by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget with the approval of the commissioner of administration, for only those expenditures established in Subsection B of this Section.

D. For each fiscal year for the three-year period following the ensuing fiscal year, the projected expenditures shall be based on only those expenditures established in Subsection B of this Section. The projected expenditures shall be approved jointly by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration according to the following process:

(1) The division of administration shall develop projected expenditures for each of the three fiscal years based on the official information of the Consensus Estimating Conference.

(2) The division of administration may use its discretion to develop projected expenditures when official information is not available from the Consensus Estimating Conference.

(3) The division of administration shall submit the projected expenditures and an analysis by program of the assumptions and calculations used to make the projections to the legislative fiscal office on a date mutually decided upon by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration.

(4) The legislative fiscal office shall review and make recommendations on the submitted information to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(5) The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall meet and review the projected expenditures and any recommendations made by the legislative fiscal office.

(6) Both the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget and the commissioner of administration shall approve the establishment and any revisions of the projected expenditures.

E. The most recently adopted figures for current year expenditures established by Subsection B of this Section, for the ensuing fiscal year expenditures established by Subsection C of this Section, and for the projected expenditures defined by Subsection D of this Section shall be the expenditure figures used in the base-line projection.

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