Title 5, Title 5

The State Controller may close the books as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year. Any bills or invoices presented after that date may be paid from appropriations or allocations for the ensuing year on the recommendation of the State Controller if within the amou…

1. Department of Administrative and Financial Services. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services must apply: A. Any balance remaining in the Salary Plan program in the Department of Administrative and Financial Services at the end of any fiscal year to be carried f…

Whenever it seems advisable to the Governor, the Governor may cause the books and accounts of the State or any department or agency thereof to be audited and for that purpose may employ auditors other than those employed by the Office of the State Auditor.

1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. A. "Overpayment" means a payment made to a vendor: (1) In duplicate for a single invoice; (2) In the amount of a discount available from the vendor th…

The Legislature finds that the many social service needs of the citizens of this State are varied and often complex. State Government agencies have been organized to provide the most efficient delivery system possible to meet these social service needs. The Legislature recognizes…

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1985, c. 96 (RPR).] 1. Department. "Department" means the Department of Health and Human Services. 2. Division. "Division" means the Executive Department, Divisio…

The departments and the division shall prepare a written report of the State's social service programs. This report shall be presented to the Governor and the Legislature, widely distributed to community social service agencies and made available to the public no later than Decem…

This chapter may be known and cited as the "Maine Uniform Accounting and Auditing Practices Act for Community Agencies."

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1995, c. 402, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).] 1. Agreement. "Agreement" means a legally binding written document between 2 or more parties, including, but not limited to, a doc…

The commissioner shall adopt rules no later than 180 days after July 3, 1995 that must contain the requirements for the state report for the department and, at a minimum, the following requirements. [RR 1997, c. 2, §9 (COR).] 1. Accounting systems and reporting. Community agencie…

The commissioner shall adopt rules no later than 180 days after July 3, 1995 containing at least the following requirements for audit practices. [RR 1997, c. 2, §10 (COR).] 1. Federal requirement. All federal audits prepared for agencies to which section 1660‑F, subsection 1, par…

The commissioner shall adopt rules, as necessary to comply with this section, establishing uniform standards when administering agreements with a community agency. These rules must address the following subjects: community agency accounting, reporting and auditing standards; depa…

The responsibilities of the parties under this chapter are as follows. [PL 1995, c. 402, Pt. C, §2 (NEW).] 1. Community agency. A community agency shall: A. Design and operate an internal control system reasonably sufficient to ensure that the community agency meets acceptable st…

A nonparticipating department may not authorize agreement compliance and cost principles to be administered or conduct audits of community agencies unless the department has informed the commissioner that the department will adopt all provisions of this chapter and the department…

Any person aggrieved under this chapter is entitled to judicial review, as provided in the Maine Administrative Procedure Act.

The words "Governor-elect," whenever used in this chapter and chapter 145, mean the candidate most recently elected to the office of Governor of the State in the November election for choice of Governor, or the Governor's successor. [RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. B, §54 (COR).] The words "F…

The Department of Administrative and Financial Services, through the Bureau of the Budget, has the duty and authority: [PL 1991, c. 780, Pt. Y, §47 (AMD).] 1. State budget document. To prepare and submit to the Governor-elect, or the Governor, biennially, a state budget document …

The budget of the State Government shall present a complete financial plan for each fiscal year of the ensuing biennium. It shall set forth all proposed expenditures for the administration, operation and maintenance of the departments and agencies of the State Government; all int…

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: A. Consist of a budget message by the Governor-elect or the Governor that outlines the 4-year financia…

1. Expenditure and appropriation requirements. On or before September 1st of the even-numbered years, all departments and other agencies of the State Government and corporations and associations receiving or desiring to receive state funds under the provisions of law shall prepar…

The Governor-elect or the Governor, with the assistance of the State Budget Officer, shall review the budget estimates, altering, revising, increasing or decreasing the items of the estimates as may be determined necessary in view of the needs of the various departments and agenc…

The Legislature shall review a biennial or supplemental budget submitted to it in accordance with this chapter and enact a budget no later than 30 days prior to the date of adjournment prescribed in Title 3, section 2, except that, during the first year in office of a Governor-el…

Not later than June 1st of each year, the Governor shall require the head of each department and agency of the State Government to submit to the Bureau of the Budget a work program for the ensuing fiscal year. Such work program shall include all appropriations, revenues, transfer…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Budget Officer shall provide the Office of Fiscal and Program Review with electronic access, including report-writing capabilities, to those aspects of the budget management system presently referred to as the "budget analyst …

Allotments in Other Special Revenue funds accounts, internal service fund accounts and enterprise funds, except the State Lottery Fund and the Dirigo Health Enterprise Fund, may exceed current year allocations and the unused balance of allocations authorized to carry forward by l…

Whenever it appears to the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services that the anticipated income and other available funds of the State will not be sufficient to meet the expenditures authorized by the Legislature, the commissioner shall so report in writing to the Go…

A state department or agency may not make expenditures of any federal funds or expenditures in anticipation of receipt of federal funds for any new or expanded programs in the Federal Expenditures Fund or federal block grant funds, unless such federal funds are approved by the Le…

Every agency and department of the State shall submit to the State Budget Officer a list of any new laws, new regulations or other actions that may require the State to comply with any new federal mandate in the current biennium or the next biennium. [PL 1995, c. 591, §1 (NEW).] …

1. Application. This section shall apply to federal grants that are the result of class action or other litigation that involves the citizens of the State. 2. Allocation. No expenditure may be made from any such grants unless allocation of the funds is recommended by the joint st…

All allocation bills shall be submitted in the same manner as required for the General Fund in section 1581 and shall be subject to the transfer provisions of section 1585.

Each department or agency of State Government that is authorized to expend more than $25,000 on a single project in any fiscal year on the construction, repair or improvement of state-owned real property shall prepare and submit a departmental indirect cost allocation proposal to…

An agency or agencies of the State designated by the Governor to establish an alternative-fueled vehicle demonstration program under the National Energy Policy Act of 1992, Public Law 102-486, Section 409 may accept funds to implement that program from the Federal Government or f…

Notwithstanding section 1585, available balances in the General Fund Salary Plan program in the Department of Administrative and Financial Services that are no longer required for the purposes for which they were appropriated may be made available by financial order upon the reco…

Notwithstanding section 1585, available balances in the Highway Fund Salary Plan program in the Department of Administrative and Financial Services that are no longer required for the purposes for which they were allocated may be made available by financial order upon the recomme…

The director of a state agency shall submit, at the same time that a federal grant application is submitted to the Federal Government, a copy of each such application to the Director of Fiscal and Program Review.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall have the following meanings: [PL 1977, c. 378 (NEW).] 1. Federal grant application. "Federal grant application" means a request or proposal for financial assistance made by a state agency o…

The Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission established by Title 5, section 12004‑I, subsection 29‑B, to provide the Governor, the Legislature and the Revenue Forecasting Committee with analyses, findings and recommendations representing state economic assumptions relevant to r…

1. Duties. The Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission shall develop macroeconomic secular trend forecasts for the current fiscal biennium and the next 2 fiscal biennia. 2. Economic assumptions. No later than November 1st of each even-numbered year and April 1st of each odd-num…

The commission may enter into contractual arrangements subject to state purchasing procedures for the procurement of economic forecasting models, data, assumptions and assistance in analyzing the data.

The commission shall meet at least 3 times a year. Additional meetings may be called by the chair or by any 3 members. All meetings are open to the public.

The commission may receive staff support from the Department of Administrative and Financial Services and the Department of Labor.

There is established the Revenue Forecasting Committee, referred to in this chapter as the "committee," for the purpose of providing the Governor, the Legislature and the State Budget Officer with analyses, findings and recommendations relating to the projection of revenues for t…

1. Duties; use of economic assumptions. The committee shall develop current fiscal biennium and 2 ensuing fiscal biennia revenue projections using the economic assumptions recommended by the Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission. 2. Biennial revenue projections. The committee…

The State Budget Officer shall use the revenue projections recommended by the committee in setting revenue estimates in accordance with section 1665, subsection 3. The State Budget Officer shall use the revenue projections of the committee in preparing General Fund and Highway Fu…

The committee shall meet at least 3 times a year. Additional meetings may be called by a majority vote of the committee or by the State Budget Officer as specified in section 1710‑G.

The committee may receive staff assistance from the Department of Administrative and Financial Services and, at the discretion of the Legislature, the Office of Fiscal and Program Review. The committee may also utilize other professionals having revenue forecasting, economic and …