Sec. A-16. Unified state budget. The Governor, when submitting the budget to the Legislature, shall submit the budget document and the General Fund and Highway Fund bills in a manner that will identify the gross amount of resources for each program. The gross unified budget bills and budget document encompass resources from all funds, including, but not limited to: General Fund, Highway Fund, Federal Expenditures Fund, Federal Block Grant Fund and Other Special Revenue funds. Separate gross unified budget bills must be submitted for the General Fund and the Highway Fund.

Sec. A-17. Line category amounts of General Fund and Highway Fund. The amounts included in the unified state budget by line category are the amounts included immediately under the appropriations and allocations sections of the individual pages in the budget document for the General Fund and the Highway Fund. These amounts, as adjusted by the Legislature, must be used when preparing work programs by fund for each fiscal year of the biennium.

Sec. A-18. Multiple accounts certification. If any amounts identified to a fund in the source of funds section are distributed to more than one account within that fund, the state department or agency head responsible for those funds shall certify to the State Budget Officer the amounts included in each account by line category and certify that the sum of the accounts by fund, by line category, equals the approved totals of the program within the Act.

Sec. A-19. Year-end closing. The State Controller may close the books as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005. Any bills or invoices presented after those dates may be paid from appropriations or allocations for the ensuing year on recommendation of the State Controller if within the amounts of approved allotments.