The Florida Senate

216.0235  Performance-based legislative program budget requests to be furnished by agencies.--

(1)  The head of each state agency shall submit a final legislative program budget request to the Legislature and to the Governor, as chief budget officer of the state, in the form and manner prescribed in the program budget instructions and at such time as specified by the Executive Office of the Governor, based on the agency's independent judgment of its needs. However, a state agency may not submit its final legislative program budget request later than September 1 of each year. The provisions of s. 216.023 do not apply to programs within state agencies that have been approved to operate under a performance-based program budget.

(2)  The judicial branch shall submit its final legislative program budget request directly to the Legislature with a copy to the Governor, as chief budget officer of the state, in the form and manner prescribed in the program budget instructions. However, the final legislative program budget requests shall be submitted no later than September 1 of each year.

(3)  The Executive Office of the Governor and the legislative appropriations committees shall jointly develop legislative program budget instructions from which each agency that has an approved program and the judicial branch, pursuant to ss. 216.0166 and 216.043, shall prepare its legislative program budget request. The program budget instructions must be consistent with s. 216.141 and must be transmitted to each agency and to the judicial branch no later than June 15 of each year. In the event that agreement cannot be reached between the Executive Office of the Governor and the legislative appropriations committees regarding legislative program budget instructions, the issue shall be resolved by the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

(4)  Each agency that has an approved program and the judicial branch shall submit for review a preliminary legislative program budget request to the Executive Office of the Governor, in the form and manner prescribed in ss. 216.0166 and 216.043, in accordance with the legislative program budget instructions, and at such time as is prescribed by the Executive Office of the Governor.

(5)  The Executive Office of the Governor shall review the preliminary legislative program budget request for technical compliance with the budget format provided for in the program budget instructions. The Executive Office of the Governor shall notify the agency or the judicial branch of any adjustment required. The agency or the judicial branch shall make the appropriate corrections in preparing its final legislative program budget request. If the appropriate technical corrections are not made in the final legislative program budget requests, the Executive Office of the Governor may adjust the program budget request to incorporate the appropriate technical corrections in the format of the request.

(6)  At any time after the Governor and the Chief Justice submit their recommended program budgets to the Legislature, the head of the agency or the judicial branch may amend his or her request by transmitting to the Governor and the Legislature an amended request in the form and manner prescribed in the legislative budget program budget instructions.

History.--s. 8, ch. 94-249; s. 1510, ch. 95-147.