Budget Act
Montana · State Finance · §§ 17-7-101 to 17-7-163 · 40 sections
Overview
The Budget Act governs how a state prepares, enacts, and administers its annual operating and long-term capital improvement budgets. It prescribes the contents of the executive's annual budget report — including the salaries of specified officials and the compensation and expenses of members of state boards, councils, and advisory bodies — provides for legislative adoption of a financial plan for each year, and vests the Governor with general budgetary powers, including approval of salaries set by agencies under gubernatorial control. It also creates a central budget bureau within the executive branch to analyze proposed legislation and pursue operational economies, a fee-funded budgetary accounting service agency, and reserve funds that receive transfers of unobligated cash and may be drawn on only with legislative authorization.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-101Short title
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-102Definitions
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-103Governor chief budget officer -- appointment of budget director
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-104Repealed
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-105Repealed
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-106Repealed
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-107through 17-7-110 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-111Preparation of state budget -- agency program budgets -- form distribution and contents
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-112Submission deadlines -- budgeting schedule
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-113Inquiries and investigations by budget director
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-114Repealed
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-115through 17-7-120 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-121Preliminary budget preparation and submission to governor and governor-elect
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-122Preparation of budget
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-123Form of executive budget
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-124Additional budget data
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-125through 17-7-129 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-130Budget stabilization reserve fund -- rules for deposits and transfers -- purpose
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-131Legislative action -- ending fund balance
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-132Right to appear on consideration of budget
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-133Montana local disaster resiliency fund
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-134Repealed
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-135Pension fund
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-136and 17-7-137 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-138Operating budget
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-139Program transfers
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-140Reduction in spending
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-141Audit costs
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-142Calculation of reversions for funded resident enrollment growth in Montana university system
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-143through 17-7-149 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-150Definitions
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-151Budget comparison
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-152Expenditure comparison
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-153State contributions to local government -- expenditure comparison
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-154Terminated
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-155through 17-7-159 reserved
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-160Montana highway patrol exempt from vacancy savings
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-161Game warden positions exempt from vacancy savings
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-162Montana school for the deaf and blind exempt from vacancy savings
- Mont. Code Ann. § 17-7-163Appropriations for medicaid expenditures
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