CHAPTER 673

An Act to amend and reenact § 2-54 of the Code of Virginia, relating

to the submission of a budget to the General Assembly, and to amend

the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 80-19.01,

so as to require that certain statements accompany certain requests

for legislation when submitted to the General Assembly or a com-
mittee thereof.

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Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 2-54 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted and
that the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section num-
bered 30-19.01, as follows:

§ 2-54. Within five days after the beginning of each regular session
of the General Assembly, the Governor shall submit to the presiding
officer of each house printed copies of a budget, based on his own con-
clusions and judgment, containing a complete and itemized plan of all
proposed expenditures for each State department, bureau, division, officer,

ard, commission, institution, or other agency or undertaking, classified
by function, character and object, and of estimated revenues and borrow-
ings, for each year in the ensuing biennial period beginning with the first
day of July thereafter. Opposite each item of the proposed expenditures
the budget shall show in separate parallel columns the amount appro-
priated for the last preceding appropriation year, for the current appro-
priation year, and the increase or decrease.

The Governor shall accompany the budget with:

(1) A statement of the revenues and expenditures for each of the
two appropriation years next preceding, classified and itemized in accord-
ance with the official budget classifications adopted by the Governor.

(2) A statement of the current assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus
or deficit of the State.

(3) A statement of the debts and funds of the State.

(4) A statement showing the Governor’s itemized estimates of the
condition of the State treasury as of the beginning and end of each of
the next two appropriation years.

(5) An itemized and complete financial balance sheet for the State
at the close of the last preceding fiscal year ending June thirtieth.
(6) A general survey of the State’s financial and natural resources,
with a review of the general economic industrial and commercial condi-
tion of the Commonwealth.

(7) Statements showing the estimated additional annual costs of the
maintenance and the use of each item of capital outlay and the estimated
additional annual costs of each new service recommended in the plan of
proposed expenditures. The statements shall set forth separately esti-
mates of the number of additional personnel and their salaries, and estt-
mates of other costs.

§ 80-19.01. No request for or suggestion of legislation shall be
submitted to the General Assembly or committee thereof involving an
appropriation for capital outlay or for the rendering of any new service
by the State, unless such request be accompanied by a written statement,
setting forth: (1) when it involves an appropriation for capital outlay,
the estimated additional annual cost of operation of the proposed capital
outlay, including the number of personnel to be employed together with
the approximate total of the annual salaries of such additional personnel;
and, (2) when it involves an appropriation for the rendering of any new
service by the State, the number of additional personnel which will be
required as a result of the addition of such service together with the
approximate total of the annual salaries of such additional personnel,
and if no additional personnel are to be required, it shall be stated that
the service is to be performed by personnel in presently approved
positions.