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2017 Tennessee Code
Title 3 - Legislature
Chapter 14 - Office of Evaluation and Analysis
Part 2 - Office of Legislative Budget Analysis
§ 3-14-201. Duties.
Universal Citation: TN Code § 3-14-201 (2017)
- (a) There is created the office of legislative budget analysis which has the duty to:
- (1) Conduct detailed analyses of the state's budget and its content including recommended appropriations, expenditures, revenues, work programs, recommended appropriations for capital projects, recommended improvements, recommended carry-over appropriations, recommended supplemental appropriations, and other aspects of the budget, and shall review and report on such items as the status of the reserve account for revenue fluctuations, the amount of state-bonded indebtedness, and the status and condition of the financing of state programs;
- (2) Assist the speakers in reviewing and analyzing the state funding board reports of the estimated rate of growth of the state's economy;
- (3) Conduct detailed analyses of the impact of complex legislation and summarize the short-term and long-term impact of such legislation on the state's budgeting and financing methods and sources;
- (4) Examine and make recommendations on the short-term and long-term effect of public policy decisions of the general assembly and make recommendations for changes in overall public policy designed to bring about efficiencies and economies;
- (5) Assist members and committees of the general assembly with budget analysis; and
- (6) Perform such other duties as may be assigned by the speakers.
- (b) It is also the duty of the office of legislative budget analysis to jointly monitor federal grants and information management responsibility with the fiscal review committee in accordance with § 3-7-110. The monitoring and information management responsibility shall be administered by one (1) staff person in the office of legislative budget analysis and one (1) staff person from the staff of the fiscal review committee. The staff of the fiscal review committee and the office of legislative budget analysis shall jointly monitor, analyze, and manage information concerning federal grants programs, including, but not limited to, social services grant funds, in order to inform members of the general assembly concerning such grants. The directors of the staff of the fiscal review committee and of the office of legislative budget analysis shall jointly make such reports as are appropriate to the speakers of the house of representatives and of the senate and to the fiscal review committee.
- (c) The office of legislative budget analysis shall not propose a general appropriations bill.
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