Sec. 8. (a) In preparing the various estimates for the budget report, the budget agency may require any state agency to prepare and file with it additional or more detailed information and the director, or any duly authorized employee of the budget agency, may enter and investigate the operation of any state agency, and may examine its records as authorized by the director. A written report of the investigation and examination shall be prepared and filed in the budget agency. The foregoing report shall be made available to the budget committee for review and to aid in its determination of the several amounts or estimates for appropriations the budget committee may recommend for inclusion in the budget report and in the budget bills prepared pursuant to the authority of this chapter.
(b) Upon its own initiative or at the request of any state agency, the budget committee may arrange a hearing or hearings devoted to any matter pertinent to the preparation of a budget report and budget bill at which representatives of the interested state agency, or any citizen, may appear and be heard. As allowed by the committee's policies and procedures, general information and relevant and material evidence, and explanation and argument may then be presented to the budget committee members that will assist them in the performance of their respective duties under this chapter.
Formerly: Acts 1961, c.123, s.8. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.28, SEC.8.
Structure Indiana Code
Title 4. State Offices and Administration
Article 12. Appropriations Management
4-12-1-1. Short Title; Purposes
4-12-1-3. Creation of Budget Agency; Director; Establishment of Budget Committee
4-12-1-4. Deputy Budget Directors; Staff Members, Assistants, Employees, and Clerks; Experts
4-12-1-7. Statements of State Agencies; Filing; Examination; Recommendations for Budget Report
4-12-1-10. Budget Committee; Meetings; Time; Expiration of Section
4-12-1-11. Budget Committee; Functions; Compensation
4-12-1-11.5. Agency Action Requiring Budget Committee Review; Placement on Committee Agenda
4-12-1-12. Appropriation Lists; Allotment System; Transfer; Emergency or Contingency Appropriations
4-12-1-12.5. "Block Grant" Defined; Transfers of Funds
4-12-1-14.2. Oil Overcharge Funds; Appropriation to Division of Family Resources; Amount
4-12-1-14.3. Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Fund
4-12-1-14.5. Mortgage Foreclosure Multistate Settlement Fund; Energy Assistance
4-12-1-15. Emergency or Contingency Appropriations; Standards for Allocation
4-12-1-15.5. Medicaid Contingency and Reserve Account
4-12-1-15.7. State Tuition Reserve Account
4-12-1-16. Transfer of Powers and Duties
4-12-1-17.2. Establishment of Hoosier Families First Fund; Appropriation; Allotment of Money
4-12-1-18. Appropriation and Allotment of Federal Funds to Instrumentalities
4-12-1-19. Combined General Fund Reserves
4-12-1-20. Pokagon Band Tribal-State Compact Fund
4-12-1-21. State Employees; Salary Funded From Donated Money; Reporting Requirement