11.068 Office of State Budget Director -- Organizational units -- Duties, rights, and responsibilities. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 2 11.068 Office of State Budget Director -- Organizational units -- Duties, rights, and responsibilities. (1) There is created an agency of state government known as the Office of State Budget Director. The office shall be attached for administrative purposes to the Office of
the Governor. (2) The office shall include the following major organizational units: (a) The Office of State Budget Director, headed by the state budget director. The state budget director shall be appointed by the Governor pursuant to KRS
11.040 and shall serve, under direction of the Governor, as state budget
director and secretary of the state planning committee. The office shall include
such principal assistants and supporting personnel appointed pursuant to KRS
Chapter 12 as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the office. The
office shall have such duties, rights, and responsibilities as are necessary to
perform, without being limited to, the following functions:
1. Functions relative to the preparation, administration, and evaluation of
the executive budget as provided in KRS Chapters 45 and 48 and in
other laws, including but not limited to, capital construction budgeting,
evaluation of state programs, program monitoring, financial and policy
analysis and issue review, and executive policy implementation and
compliance; 2. Continuous evaluation of statewide management and administrative
procedures and practices, including but not limited to, organizational
analysis and review, economic forecasting, technical assistance to state
agencies, forms control, and special analytic studies as directed by the
Governor; and 3. Staff planning functions of the state planning committee and evaluation
of statewide management and administrative practices and procedures. (b) Governor's Office for Policy and Management, headed by the state budget director. The state budget director shall maintain staff employed pursuant to
KRS Chapter 18A sufficient to carry out the functions of the office relating to
state budgeting as provided in paragraph (a) of this subsection and state
planning as provided in KRS Chapter 147, review of administrative
regulations proposed by executive agencies prior to filing pursuant to KRS
Chapter 13A and such other duties as may be assigned by the Governor. (c) Governor's Office for Policy Research, headed by the state budget director. The Governor's Office for Policy Research shall assist the state budget
director in providing policy research data, information, and analysis to the
Governor on public policy issues that impact the Commonwealth. The state
budget director shall identify and direct the research to be completed and
provided by the office. The state budget director shall maintain staff employed
in accordance with KRS Chapter 18A sufficient to carry out the functions of
the office. Page 2 of 2 (d) Governor's Office for Economic Analysis, headed by the state budget director. The state budget director shall maintain staff employed in accordance with
KRS Chapter 18A sufficient to carry out the functions of the office. The
Governor's Office for Economic Analysis shall carry out the revenue
estimating and economic analysis functions and responsibilities, including but
not limited to the functions and responsibilities assigned to the Office of State
Budget Director by KRS Chapter 48. The Governor's Office for Economic
Analysis shall perform the tax administrative function of using tax data to
provide the Department of Revenue with studies, projections, statistical
analyses, and any other information that will assist the Department of
Revenue in performing its tax administrative functions. Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 23, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 28, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts
ch. 46, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 279, sec. 2,
effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 186, sec. 1, effective July 13,
1984.