(a) Not fewer than thirty days before the legislature convenes in regular session in an even-numbered year, the governor may submit to the legislature a supplemental budget to amend any appropriation for the current fiscal biennium. The supplemental budget shall reflect the changes being proposed in the State’s program and financial plan and shall be submitted as applicable, in the manner provided in § 37-71. In any supplemental budget that proposes appropriations for which the source of funding is general obligation bonds, the budget shall include the schedule, declaration, and computation specified in section 37-71(d)(6).

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-72

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Program: means a combination of resources and activities designed to achieve an objective or objectives. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 37-62
(b) In each regular session in an even-numbered year, the legislature may amend any appropriation act of the current fiscal biennium or prior fiscal periods.

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