• § 45-12-70 - Short Title
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Budget Act."
• § 45-12-71 - Definitions
  As used in this part, the term: (1) "Annual operating budget" means the operating budget for each budget unit which details the appropriations passed...
• § 45-12-72 - Establishment of Office of Planning and Budget; General Provisions
  (a) There is established in the office of the Governor the Office of Planning and Budget as a separate budget unit for the purpose...
• § 45-12-73 - Powers and Duties Generally
  The Office of Planning and Budget, at the direction and under the control of the Governor and subject to this part, shall perform the...
• § 45-12-74 - Budget Report -- Preparation and Submission to General Assembly
  The Governor, through the Office of Planning and Budget, shall prepare and submit a budget report to the General Assembly within five days after...
• § 45-12-75 - Budget Report -- Contents and Form
  The budget report shall contain and include the following information: (1) Summary statements of the financial condition of the state, accompanied by such detailed...
• § 45-12-75.1 - (Repealed Effective June 30, 2020) Zero-Base Budgeting; Intent; Departmental Priority Lists
  (a) The Governor in preparing his or her budget report under Code Section 45-12-75, and budget units in preparing their budget estimates under Code...
• § 45-12-76 - Limitations on Appropriations by General Assembly; Supplementary Appropriations
  The General Assembly shall not appropriate funds for any given fiscal year which, in aggregate, exceed a sum equal to the amount of unappropriated...
• § 45-12-77 - Requirement of Emergency Appropriation; Manner of Allocation
  In order to provide for the emergency needs of the state agencies, which needs were not ascertainable at the time of the submission of...
• § 45-12-78 - Heads of Budget Units to Submit Annual Estimates; Preparation and Submission of Budget Estimates of Legislative and Judicial Agencies; Review of Budget Estimates by Office of Planning and Budget
  (a) The head of each budget unit, other than the General Assembly and the judiciary, shall annually submit to the Office of Planning and...
• § 45-12-79 - Governor to Examine Estimates and Make Revisions; Budget Report to Be Printed and Transmitted to General Assembly; Examination of Report by Governor-Elect and His Designated Budget Representatives
  (a) The Governor shall examine the statements and estimates before their submission to the General Assembly and shall make or cause to be made...
• § 45-12-80 - Appropriations Act to Adopt Financial Plans; Continuation in Force of Annual Appropriation Acts; Adoption of Supplementary Appropriations Acts; Submission of Budget to Office of Planning and Budget
  (a) The financial plan for each fiscal year, as presented in the budget report, shall be adopted, with such modifications as are made by...
• § 45-12-81 - Procedure and Restriction for Expenditures by State and Budget Units Thereof
  All expenditures by the state and its budget units of moneys drawn from the state treasury shall be made under the authority of appropriations...
• § 45-12-82 - Periodic Work Programs to Be Filed; Funds Not to Be Allotted Until Program Approved; Content and Form of Program; Amendment of Program; Filing of Copies of Program
  The Governor, through the Office of Planning and Budget, shall require each budget unit, other than those of the legislative branch and the judicial...
• § 45-12-83 - Requirement of Filing of Requests by Budget Units for Allotment of Funds; Time and Form of Requests
  No funds may be made available for expenditure by any budget unit, other than the units of the legislative branch and the judicial branch,...
• § 45-12-83.1 - Display of State Flag by Agencies
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "agency" means: (1) Every state department, agency, board, bureau, commission, public corporation, and authority; (2)...
• § 45-12-84 - Review of Periodic Work Programs and Requests for Allotment of Funds Generally
  (a) The Governor, through the Office of Planning and Budget, shall review the periodic work programs submitted by the budget units for conformity to...
• § 45-12-85 - Examination and Investigation of Periodic Work Programs and Requests for Allotment of Funds
  (a) The Governor shall examine the periodic work programs and shall make or cause to have made such further investigations by the Office of...
• § 45-12-86 - Governor Authorized to Require State Agencies to Reserve Specified Appropriations for Budget Reductions and Withhold a Percentage of Agency Allotments to Maintain Spending Within Actual Revenues
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, the Governor, during the first six months of a fiscal year period...
• § 45-12-87 - Requirement of Authorization of Payments and Obligation; Liability of Persons Authorizing Payments or Receiving Payments in Violation of Provisions of Part
  No payment shall be made and no obligation shall be incurred against any appropriation unless such payment or obligation has been authorized as provided...
• § 45-12-88 - Budget Units to Furnish Information to Budgetary Responsibility Oversight Committee Before Instituting New Programs
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2008, p. VO1, § 2-3, effective January 28, 2008.
• § 45-12-89 - Appropriations Not Expended or Obligated At End of Fiscal Year to Lapse
  At the end of each fiscal year, the amount of each appropriation provided for in this part, except for the mandatory appropriations required by...
• § 45-12-90 - Disposition of Appropriation for Duties, Purposes, and Objects Which Have Been Transferred
  In the event that any duties, purposes, and objects for which appropriations are made shall be transferred to a budget unit other than that...
• § 45-12-91 - Federal Funds Received by State Continually Appropriated
  All federal funds received by the state are continually appropriated in the exact amounts and for the purposes authorized and directed by the federal...
• § 45-12-92 - Revenue Collections to Be Paid to State Treasury on Monthly Basis; Effect of Failure of Budget Unit to Comply With Code Section; User Fee Defined; Reporting
  (a) All departments, agencies, and budget units charged with the duty of collecting taxes, fees, assessments, or other moneys, the collection of which is...
• § 45-12-92.1 - Fees Which are Not Revenue Measures; Utilization of Proceeds
  (a) The General Assembly finds and determines that certain fees imposed or authorized by law are not "revenue measures" within the meaning of Article...
• § 45-12-92.2 - Definitions; Procedures; Conditions; Appropriation
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Base amount" means the amount of fee proceeds collected during the complete fiscal year...
• § 45-12-93 - Revenue Shortfall Reserve; Reservation of Surplus State Funds; Appropriation and Release of Funds; Limit on Amount of Reserve
  (a) There shall be a reserve of state funds known as the "Revenue Shortfall Reserve."(b) The amount of all surplus in state funds existing...
• § 45-12-94 - Striking of Name of Employee From Requisition for Allotment of Funds
  Neither the Governor nor the Office of Planning and Budget shall have the power to strike arbitrarily the name of any individual employed by...
• § 45-12-95 - Duty of Office of Planning and Budget to Encourage State Agencies to Identify and Implement Cost-Saving Measures and to Decentralize State Government
  (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to encourage state agencies to identify and implement cost-saving measures and to decentralize state government.(b)...

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