2017 Vermont Statutes
Title 32 - Taxation and Finance
Chapter 5 - Budget
§ 306 Budget report
§ 306. Budget report
(a) The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly, not later than the third Tuesday of every annual session, a budget which shall embody his or her estimates, requests, and recommendations for appropriations or other authorizations for expenditures from the State Treasury. In the first year of the biennium, the budget shall relate to the two succeeding fiscal years. In the second year of the biennium, it shall relate to the succeeding fiscal year. The budget shall be based upon the official State revenue estimates, including the Medicaid estimated caseloads and per-member per-month expenditures, adopted by the Emergency Board pursuant to section 305a of this title.
(1) The Governor shall develop and publish annually for public review as part of the budget report a current services budget, providing the public with an estimate of what the current level of services is projected to cost in the next fiscal year.
(2) The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the report to be made under this subsection.
(b) The Governor shall also submit to the General Assembly, not later than the third Tuesday of each session of every biennium, a tax expenditure budget which shall embody his or her estimates, requests, and recommendations. The provisions of 2 V.S.A. § 20(d) (expiration of required reports) shall not apply to the report to be made under this subsection. The tax expenditure budget shall be divided into three parts and made as follows:
(1) A budget covering tax expenditures related to nonprofits and charitable organizations and covering miscellaneous expenditures shall be made by the third Tuesday of the legislative session beginning in January 2012 and every three years thereafter.
(2) A budget covering tax expenditures related to economic development, including business, investment, and energy, shall be made by the third Tuesday of the legislative session beginning in January 2013 and every three years thereafter.
(3) A budget covering tax expenditures made in furtherance of Vermont's human services, including tax expenditures affecting veterans, shall be made by the third Tuesday of the legislative session beginning in January 2014 and every three years thereafter.
(c) The tax expenditure budget shall be provided to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, which Committees shall review the tax expenditure budget and shall report their recommendations in bill form.
(d) The Governor shall develop a process for public participation in the development of budget goals, as well as general prioritization and evaluation of spending and revenue initiatives. (Amended 1969, No. 75, § 4; 1973, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1974; 1987, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 58, eff. June 13, 1988; 2009, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § H.16, eff. June 2, 2009; 2011, No. 45, § 36j, eff. May 24, 2011; 2013, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 56; 2015 No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § E.100.7; 2017, No. 85, § C.117, eff. June 28, 2017.)
