§ 17-7-101 Short title
§ 17-7-102 Definitions
§ 17-7-103 Governor chief budget officer — appointment of budget director
§ 17-7-104 Repealed
§ 17-7-105 Repealed
§ 17-7-106 Repealed
§ 17-7-111 Preparation of state budget — agency program budgets — form distribution and contents
§ 17-7-112 Submission deadlines — budgeting schedule
§ 17-7-113 Inquiries and investigations by budget director
§ 17-7-114 Repealed
§ 17-7-121 Preliminary budget preparation and submission to governor and governor-elect
§ 17-7-122 Preparation of budget
§ 17-7-123 Form of executive budget
§ 17-7-124 Additional budget data
§ 17-7-130 Budget stabilization reserve fund — rules for deposits and transfers — purpose
§ 17-7-131 Legislative action — ending fund balance
§ 17-7-132 Right to appear on consideration of budget
§ 17-7-133 Montana local disaster resiliency fund
§ 17-7-134 Pension state special revenue account
§ 17-7-138 Operating budget
§ 17-7-139 Program transfers
§ 17-7-140 Reduction in spending
§ 17-7-141 Audit costs
§ 17-7-142 Calculation of reversions for funded resident enrollment growth in Montana university system
§ 17-7-150 Definitions
§ 17-7-151 Budget comparison
§ 17-7-152 Expenditure comparison
§ 17-7-153 State contributions to local government — expenditure comparison
§ 17-7-154 Expenditures for district courts and office of public defender
§ 17-7-160 Montana highway patrol exempt from vacancy savings
§ 17-7-161 Game warden positions exempt from vacancy savings
§ 17-7-162 Montana school for the deaf and blind exempt from vacancy savings
§ 17-7-163 Appropriations for medicaid expenditures

Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 17 > Chapter 7 > Part 1 - Budget Systems and Program Plans

  • Agency: means all offices, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, universities, colleges, and any other person or any other administrative unit of state government that spends or encumbers public money by virtue of an appropriation from the legislature under 17-8-101. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • 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
  • Approving authority: means :

    (a)the governor or the governor's designated representative for executive branch agencies;

    (b)the chief justice of the supreme court or the chief justice's designated representative for judicial branch agencies;

    (c)the speaker for the house of representatives;

    (d)the president for the senate;

    (e)appropriate legislative committees or a designated representative for legislative branch agencies; or

    (f)the board of regents of higher education or its designated representative for the university system. See Montana Code 17-7-102

  • Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
  • Base budget: means the resources for the operation of state government that are of an ongoing and nonextraordinary nature in the current biennium. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Budget stabilization reserve: means the amount of unappropriated fund balance in the budget stabilization reserve fund up to 16% of all general revenue appropriations in the second year of the biennium. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Emergency: means a catastrophe, disaster, calamity, or other serious unforeseen and unanticipated circumstance that has occurred subsequent to the time that an agency's appropriation was made, that was clearly not within the contemplation of the legislature and the governor, and that affects one or more functions of a state agency and the agency's expenditure requirements for the performance of the function or functions. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • General revenue appropriations: means appropriations from the general fund or the school equalization and property tax reduction account in 20-9-336. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Necessary: means essential to the public welfare and of a nature that cannot wait until the next legislative session for legislative consideration. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • New proposals: means requests to provide new nonmandated services, to change program services, to eliminate existing services, or to change sources of funding. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Operating reserve: means an amount equal to 8. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
  • Present law base: means that level of funding needed under present law to maintain operations and services at the level authorized by the previous legislature, including but not limited to:

    (a)changes resulting from legally mandated workload, caseload, or enrollment increases or decreases;

    (b)changes in funding requirements resulting from constitutional or statutory schedules or formulas;

    (c)inflationary or deflationary adjustments; and

    (d)elimination of nonrecurring appropriations. See Montana Code 17-7-102

  • Program: means a principal organizational or budgetary unit within an agency. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Requesting agency: means the agency of state government that has requested a specific budget amendment. See Montana Code 17-7-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
  • Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203