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| Budget Process |
State Agencies Budget Requests
Executive Offices - Public Hearings
Budget Bureau
Governor
Document released as House 1
House Committee on Ways and Means - Public Hearings
Document out of House Committee favorably - New House bill number
House Ways and Means text sent to full chamber;
Representatives may offer amendments and debate bill
Committee on Bills in Third Reading - Technical corrections
New House bill number
Bill passed to be engrossed
Senate Committee on Ways and Means - Hearings
New Senate bill number (Senate Ways and Means text)
Senate Ways and Means text sent to full chamber;
Senators may offer amendments and debate bill
Committee on Bills in Third Reading
New Senate bill number
Bill passed to be engrossed
Senate bill sent to House
Conference Committee - Conference Committee Report
Governor signs, vetoes or vetoes part of budget
Chapter number, Acts of ...
A 2/3 vote in each chamber can override Governor's veto of a line item or outside section
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| Budget Terminology |
Appropriation Acts Acts that are never codified as a whole within Massachusetts General Laws. Find appropriation acts by searching the index in year's Acts & Resolves under topic "appropriations."
Conference Committee
Three members from each chamber, members of their respective Ways & Means Committees, confer and resolve differences between House and Senate final versions of the budget. The resulting report, conference committee reports cannot be amended; rather, the report is accepted or rejected in whole.
Fiscal year
Massachusetts fiscal years run from July 1 - June 30th. Fiscal year is named for year in which it ends, so FY96 begins July 1, 1995 and ends on June 30, 1996.
Line item
A separate unit of appropriations indicated by a unique eight-digit account number. Historically, the line item budget organized spending by expenditure type, rather than by program.
Outside section
The portion of the budget not dedicated to actual appropriations which establishes the rules and constraints on spending from appropriations and which often makes other law changes necessary to achieve savings or underlying cost assumptions associated with appropriations. Generally, outside sections begin after Section 3 of the general appropriation act.
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