Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management
Section 126.02 | Preparation of Budget Estimates.

Effective: June 5, 2006
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 321 - 126th General Assembly
The director of budget and management shall prepare and submit to the governor, biennially, not later than the first day of January preceding the convening of the general assembly, state budget estimates of revenues and expenditures for each state fund and budget estimates for each state agency, except such estimates as are required under section 126.022 of the Revised Code. The budget estimates for each state agency for which direct appropriations are proposed shall include the following details:
(A) Estimates of the operating budget;
(B) Estimates of the subsidy appropriations necessary, delineated by a distinct subsidy program;
(C) Estimates for special purposes, delineated by a distinct special purpose program;
(D) Estimates of appropriations necessary from each fund in reasonable detail to allow for adequate planning and oversight of programs and activities.
In the preparation of state revenue and expenditure estimates, the director of budget and management shall, not later than the fifteenth day of September in the year preceding the first regular session of the general assembly, distribute to all affected state agencies the forms necessary for the preparation of budget requests, which shall be in the form prescribed by the director in consultation with the legislative service commission to procure information concerning the revenues and expenditures for the preceding and current bienniums, an estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the current fiscal year, and an estimate of the revenues and proposed expenditures for the respective agencies for the two succeeding fiscal years for which appropriations have to be made. Each such agency shall, not later than the first day of November, file with the director its estimate of revenues and proposed expenditures for the succeeding biennium.
Each such agency shall, not later than the first day of December, file with the chairperson of the finance committees of the senate and house of representatives and the legislative service commission a duplicate copy of such budget request.
The budget request shall be accompanied by a statement in writing giving facts and explanation of reasons for the items requested. The director and the legislative service commission may make further inquiry and investigation as to any item desired. The director may approve, disapprove, or alter the requests, excepting those for the legislative and judicial branches of the state. The requests as revised by the director constitute the state budget estimates of revenues and expenditures which the director is required to submit to the governor.
The director shall determine a method to incorporate the principles of zero-based budgeting into the forms prescribed in this section.

Structure Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Revised Code

Title 1 | State Government

Chapter 126 | Office of Budget and Management

Section 126.02 | Preparation of Budget Estimates.

Section 126.021 | Appropriations for Construction Compliance Section of Department of Development.

Section 126.022 | Estimates of Revenues From Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Section 126.03 | Capital Plan - Agency Recommendations for Acquisition of Real Estate and Construction of Public Improvements.

Section 126.05 | Monthly Statements Showing Condition of General Revenue Fund.

Section 126.06 | Availability of Money in Total Operating Fund.

Section 126.07 | Certification of Balance Statement in All Contracts.

Section 126.071 | Monetary Settlement; Consultation With Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.08 | Director of Budget and Management - Powers and Duties.

Section 126.09 | Monthly Distribution Schedule of Subsidies.

Section 126.11 | Coordination and Approval of Scheduling Sales of Certain Obligations.

Section 126.12 | Recovering Statewide Indirect Costs.

Section 126.13 | Designating Program or Activity for Performance Review.

Section 126.14 | Controlling Board to Approve Release of Appropriation for Purchase of Real Estate or Other Capital Project.

Section 126.141 | Contingency Reserve for Capital Appropriations.

Section 126.15 | Adjusting Capital or Operating Budgets.

Section 126.16 | Implementing Constitutional Provision for Purposes of Issuing Direct Obligations of State.

Section 126.21 | Accounting Duties of Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.22 | Director - Accounting Powers.

Section 126.23 | Reports on State Funds.

Section 126.231 | Report From Director of Budget and Management.

Section 126.24 | Oaks Support Organization Fund.

Section 126.25 | User Charges - State Accounting Fund.

Section 126.26 | Director as Chairperson of Gubernatorial Transition Committee - Powers and Duties.

Section 126.27 | Filing Budget Estimates With Governor-Elect.

Section 126.28 | Powers to Take Testimony and Produce Evidence.

Section 126.29 | Agency Scheduled to Terminate Operations.

Section 126.30 | Interest on Late Payments for Goods and Services.

Section 126.301 | Statute of Limitations.

Section 126.31 | Travel and Other Expenses.

Section 126.32 | Job Interview and Relocation Expenses.

Section 126.35 | Warrants or Electronic Fund Transfers for Payments - Electronic Benefit Transfers.

Section 126.36 | Replacement of Lost or Destroyed Warrant.

Section 126.37 | Stale Warrants for Payment.

Section 126.38 | Furnishing Earnings Statement With Each Pay Warrant.

Section 126.40 | Forgery Recovery Fund.

Section 126.45 | Office of Internal Audit.

Section 126.46 | State Audit Committee.

Section 126.47 | Annual Internal Audit Plan.

Section 126.48 | Internal Audit Report as Public Record.

Section 126.50 | Definitions.

Section 126.503 | Control of Travel Expenses.

Section 126.504 | Use of Interoffice Mailing Service; Printing, Copying, Mail Preparation and Related Services.

Section 126.505 | Compliance With Standardization and Strategic Sourcing Policy and Control-on-Equipment Directives.

Section 126.506 | Participation in Technology Consolidation Projects.

Section 126.60 | H2ohio Fund.

Section 126.62 | Investing in Ohio Fund.

Section 126.65 | State Post-Traumatic Stress Fund.