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| | | An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission |
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| | | To Reform the State Budget Process |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §1664, as amended by PL 2005, c. 2, Pt. A, §6 and | | affected by §14, is repealed and the following enacted in its | | place: |
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| | | §1664.__Form of budget document |
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| | | 1.__Form.__The state budget document, setting forth a 4-year | | financial plan for the State Government for each fiscal year of | | the ensuing biennium and the following biennium, must: |
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| | | A.__Consist of a budget message by the Governor-elect or the | | Governor that outlines the 4-year financial plan of State | | Government for the ensuing biennium and the following | | biennium; |
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| | | B.__Embrace a general budget summary setting forth the | | aggregate figures of the budget in such a manner as to show | | the balanced relationship between the total proposed | | expenditures and the total anticipated revenues together | | with the other means of financing the budget for each fiscal | | year of the ensuing biennium, contrasted with the | | corresponding figures for the last completed fiscal year and | | the fiscal year in progress.__The general budget summary | | must: |
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