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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
The Governor shall examine and consider all requests for appropriations, together with the findings and recommendations of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting, and shall formulate the Governor's budget recommendations, which shall be presented as a budget message by the Governor during an appearance before a joint session of the Legislature which shall be convened at 12 noon on a date on or before the fourth Tuesday in February in each year .
The budget message shall include the proposed complete financial program of the State Government for the next ensuing fiscal year, and shall set forth in columnar form detailed as to each source of anticipated revenue and the purposes to which the recommended appropriations and permissions to spend shall apply for each spending agency in substantially the following form:
A. Revenues for the General Fund, other budgeted State revenues, all other dedicated funds, Federal aid funds, and trust funds:
(1) An estimate of all balances to be on hand on the first of July next ensuing which are to be available for appropriations, supported by the calculations used in arriving at the estimated figures;
(2) An estimate of the anticipated revenues from all sources applicable to the budget period, together with the actual amount earned from each source during the last completed fiscal year, and the estimate of revenues expected to be earned from each source for the current fiscal year.
C. Appropriations. The total of the appropriations recommended for the ensuing fiscal year in substantially the following form:
Detailed Budget:
(1) An itemized statement of all appropriation requests and requests for permission to spend from the General State Fund, other budgeted State revenues, other dedicated funds and Federal aid and trust funds;
(2) An itemized statement of the amounts recommended by the Governor with respect to item “1” above;
(3) An itemized statement of all amounts appropriated and permissions granted for the current fiscal year with respect to item “1” above;
(4) An itemized statement of all amounts appropriated and permissions granted for the last preceding fiscal year with respect to item “1” above detailed as to annual and supplemental appropriations, transfers of appropriations, State Emergency Fund allotments, and permission to spend, as the case may be, and showing also total expenditures, reserves, lapses and unencumbered balances;
(5) In addition, such other statistical information as may more fully show comparisons and costs of the several departments.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Jersey Statutes Title 52. State Government, Departments and Officers 52 § 27B-20 - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nj/title-52-state-government-departments-and-officers/nj-st-sect-52-27b-20/
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