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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.

 
Sec. A-20. Appropriation and allocation balances at year-end. At the end of
each fiscal year, all unencumbered appropriation and allocation
balances lapse into the respective fund or the account balance
and are not available unless authorized by law. At the end of
each fiscal year, all encumbered balances may only be carried
forward once.

 
Sec. A-21. Reorganization of departments. A state department or agency
may not transfer Positions or Personal Services, All Other or
Capital Expenditures funding between accounts when the
expenditures will allow an action to take place that will cause
an increased appropriation or allocation request in the Part I
current services budget for any program. Any such


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