Ind. Code § 4-3-4-1

Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of every state institution, office, board, bureau, society, commission, or other organization which receives an appropriation from the state, to furnish to the governor elect of the state, upon the governor elect's request, within six (6) days after each general election in November, the information in relation to the management, control, receipts, expenditures, and needs of the state institution, office, board, bureau, society, commission, or other organization as the governor may require and in the form as the governor may prescribe and to furnish plans and reliable estimates for all improvements for which appropriations are to be requested from the next general assembly.