In order to provide a more effective system of providing advice to the Governor and the General Assembly on economic trends, the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall:

(1) compile and maintain in a unified, concise, and orderly form information about total revenues and expenditures which involve the funding of state government operations, revenues received by the State which comprise general revenue sources of all receipts to include amounts borrowed, federal grants, earnings, and the various activities accounted for in other funds;

(2) continuously review and evaluate total revenues and expenditures to determine the extent to which they meet fiscal plan forecasts/projections;

(3) evaluate federal revenues in terms of impact on state programs;

(4) compile economic, social, and demographic data for use in the publishing of economic scenarios for incorporation into the development of the state budget;

(5) bring to the attention of the Governor and the General Assembly the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of the economic trends and the impact on statewide policies and priorities;

(6) establish liaison with the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget at the national level;

(7) compile and report to the General Assembly, not later than the first day of March each year, a list of each individual tax expenditure from the prior fiscal year and the estimated tax expenditure for the current fiscal year. The report must indicate the specific enactment and program which authorized the expenditure and apply to all tax expenditures in excess of one hundred thousand dollars.

HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 466, Part II, Section 44; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt VI, Section 8.C, eff July 1, 2014; 2018 Act No. 246 (H.3895), Section 2, eff July 1, 2018; 2019 Act No. 83 (H.4243), Section 7, eff May 22, 2019.

Effect of Amendment

2014 Act No. 121, Section 8.C, in the first undesignated paragraph, substituted "Governor" for "Budget and Control Board"; in subsection (5), inserted "and the General Assembly"; and made other nonsubstantive changes.

2018 Act No. 246, Section 2, in the first undesignated paragraph, substituted "Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office" for "Board of Economic Advisors".

2019 Act No. 83, Section 7, added (7), requiring the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office to annually submit tax expenditure reports to the General Assembly.