a. The Governor shall prepare and submit to the Legislative Assembly each year, at such time as the Legislative Assembly shall direct, and shall make available to the public, a proposed annual budget for the State of Washington, D.C. government. It shall:
1.
(A) Reflect the actual financial condition of the State of Washington, D.C. government;
(B) Specify the agencies and purposes for which funds are being requested; and
(C) Be prepared on the assumption that proposed expenditures for such fiscal year shall not exceed estimated resources from existing sources and proposed resources.
2. Be accompanied by:
(A) An annual budget message that shall include supporting financial and statistical information for the forthcoming fiscal year and information on the approved budgets and expenditures for the immediately preceding 3 fiscal years;
(B) A multiyear financial plan of revenues and expenses, including multiyear operating and capital improvement plans for all agencies; and
(C) A summary of the budget for distribution to the general public.
3. The proposed budget and financial plan shall be certified by the Chief Financial Officer as balanced and the Governor shall not forward to the Legislative Assembly a budget that is not balanced. The budget shall identify any new sources of revenue that shall be necessary to balance the budget as submitted.
b. The budget prepared and submitted by the Governor shall include, but not be limited to, recommended expenditures at a reasonable level for agencies under the authority of the Governor, and expenditures for the Legislative Assembly, the State of Washington, D.C. court system, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the State Board of Education, and the Board of Elections for each such entity.
c. The Governor may prepare and submit to the Legislative Assembly such supplemental or deficiency budget proposals as are necessary, including proposals to increase revenues to meet any such increased expenditure, and may prepare and submit to the Legislative Assembly for approval, by Resolution, proposed reprogrammings of budgeted amounts.
The Legislative Assembly may by Act designate categories and classes of supplemental and deficiency budget modifications and reprogrammings for which approval by the Legislative Assembly is not required or for which approval of the Legislative Assembly will be deemed to have occurred upon the expiration of a specified period of time after the Governor submits the proposal to the Legislative Assembly.
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