Title 35, Title 35 Finance

The governor shall submit the budget and the appropriation bill or bills for the fiscal year to the general assembly, which may increase, decrease, alter, or strike out the items contained therein; provided, that no action on its part shall be taken which will cause an excess of …

(a) Except as otherwise provided, all revenues of the state, with the exception of funds either exempted in the constitution or held in trust, shall be credited to the general fund, subject to appropriations for all operating expenditures of the state. (b) The governor and the di…

(a) All unexpended or unencumbered balances of general revenue appropriations, whether regular or special appropriations, at the end of any fiscal year, shall revert to the surplus account in the general fund, and may be reappropriated by the governor to the ensuing fiscal year a…

After the annual appropriation bill or bills have been passed by the general assembly and signed by the governor, the budget officer shall determine by quarterly or monthly allotments, in accordance with seasonal requirements, the division of amounts to be expended under each app…

The several state departments, agencies, and public authorities and corporations shall submit to the fiscal advisors of the house and senate, statements of financial conditions and operations within thirty (30) days of the close of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of e…

In an emergency caused by a failure of the general assembly to pass the annual appropriation bill, the same amounts appropriated in the previous fiscal year shall be available for each department and division thereof, subject to monthly or quarterly allotments, in accordance with…

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary to pay the administrative and other expenses of the state government.

(a) There is hereby created within the general fund a state budget reserve and cash stabilization account, which shall be administered by the state controller and which shall be used solely for the purpose of providing such sums as may be appropriated to fund any unanticipated ge…

(a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, no appropriation, supplemental appropriation, or budget act shall cause the aggregate state general revenue appropriations enacted for the fiscal year to exceed ninety-seven and eight tenths of one percent (97.8%) of the estimated sta…

(a) There is hereby created within the general fund a supplemental state budget reserve account, which shall be administered by the state controller and which shall be used solely for the purpose of providing such sums as may be appropriated to fund any unanticipated general reve…

(a) There is hereby created within the general fund an affordable housing rental subsidy account, which shall be administered by the state controller and which shall be used solely for the purpose of providing such sums as may be required to fund the affordable housing rental sub…

(a) The governor may make an interfund transfer. Prior to making an interfund transfer the governor shall give five (5) days written notification of the proposed interfund transfer to the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, the chairperson of the house finance comm…

(a) All department and agency heads and their employees are responsible for ensuring that financial obligations and expenditures for which they have responsibility do not exceed amounts appropriated and are spent in accordance with state laws. (b) Persons with the authority to ob…

(a) Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, the governor shall submit, as part of each budget submitted to the general assembly pursuant to § 35-3-7, performance objectives for each program in the budget for the ensuing fiscal year, estimated performance data for the…

The appropriations section in each budget bill for any fiscal year shall enumerate for each program and department all restricted receipt account appropriations, all general revenue appropriations, and all federal receipt appropriations, such that total general fund expenditures …

All expenditures for information resources and information technologies defined in § 29-8-2 [repealed], regardless of source of financing, shall be in conformance with a plan of expenditures approved by the legislature as part of its annual budget review process.

(a) The Rhode Island airport corporation shall pay to the State of Rhode Island the amount of debt service which would otherwise have been paid if the state had not refunded bonds or defeased with the proceeds from the tobacco securitization executed in June 2002 the general obli…

The budget officer shall, under the supervision of the governor, prepare the annual state budget, assembling, correlating, and revising the estimates of revenues and requests for appropriations of the various departments of the state government.

On or before December 1 of each year, the budget officer shall review the annual budget submitted by the resource recovery corporation, making such recommendations as he or she may deem proper to the director of administration.

(a) On dates determined by the budget officer, but not later than the first day of October in each year, each head of a department of the state government, not including the general assembly or the judiciary, shall assemble, correlate, and revise, with power to increase or decrea…

In submitting the estimates for expenditures and requests for appropriations, the director of the department of transportation shall provide an estimate of the funds necessary for paying tort claims made pursuant to § 24-8-35.

(a) The chairperson of the house finance committee and/or the chairperson of the senate finance committee may, from time to time, designate one or more departments to submit zero base budgets. The committee(s) shall consider the objectives, operations, measures of performance, an…

Itemized estimates of the financial needs of the legislature and of the judiciary shall be submitted, without revision, by the budget officer to the governor on or before the first day of October for inclusion in the budget. The Governor shall submit the financial needs as reques…

Whenever the budget officer shall deem it advisable or necessary to require the attendance of any person other than the director of a department or a person employed by the state in the classified service, to aid and assist him or her in the preparation of the annual budget, the …

(a) On or before the third Thursday in January in each year of each January session of the general assembly, the governor shall submit to the general assembly a budget containing a complete plan of estimated revenues and proposed expenditures, with a personnel supplement detailin…

(a) Biennially, for presentation to the voters at the next general election, a comprehensive plan detailing the capital goods and services required in the upcoming two (2) year period will be presented. (b) The plan shall also include consideration of the current capital indebted…

The budget officer shall be a capital development program officer who shall be responsible for: (1) The review of all capital development requests submitted by the various state departments, as set forth in chapter 6 of title 42, which shall include all independent boards and com…

(a) The budget shall also contain the recommendations of the governor to the general assembly for new taxes, loans, or other appropriate actions to meet any estimated deficiency for the ensuing fiscal year. It shall also be accompanied by a bill or bills for all proposed appropri…

The budget plan and bill or bills for proposed appropriations, when sent by the governor to the general assembly, shall be referred as soon as practicable to an appropriate committee of the house of representatives, and the committee shall forthwith proceed to the consideration o…