§ 62-34.2. Estimate of funds expected to accrue to General Revenue Fund and Special Revenue Funds - Comprehensive economic report.

A.  Agencies responsible for the collection of monies deposited to the credit of the General Revenue Fund and each of the Special Revenue Funds shall be subject to the provisions of this act.  Upon request of the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, these agencies shall provide the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services an itemized estimate of funds expected to accrue to the General Revenue Fund and each of the Special Revenue Funds for the ensuing fiscal year in the manner and form established by the Director, in accordance with the duties assigned to the State Board of Equalization in Section 23 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution.  Each of these agencies shall also provide to the Director, as requested, a written explanation of the methodology and relevant assumptions used in developing the revenue estimates submitted, a statement of the prior year's actual revenue collections and a projection of the current year's revenue collections.  No expenditure shall be made from any General Revenue Fund or Special Revenue Fund until such fund has been assigned to an agency by law or by the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

B.  In addition to providing the information listed above, the Oklahoma Tax Commission shall also provide to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services a comprehensive economic report no later than two weeks prior to each of the meetings of the State Board of Equalization pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 3 of Section 23 of Article X of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma.  Each report shall include a summary of recent national and state economic performance and a forecast of national and state economic performance for both the current and the upcoming fiscal years.  These reports shall be considered a basis upon which the itemized revenue estimates of the Commission are developed.  The report shall include an analysis of the relative accuracy of the economic forecasts on which the previous and current fiscal years' revenue estimates were based.

C.  The Tax Commission shall also provide all estimates, explanations, statements, projections, reports and other documents required by this section to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives at the same time that such documents are provided to the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 325, § 3, eff. July 1, 1995.  Amended by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 3, eff. July 1, 2009.  Renumbered from § 41.7b of this title by Laws 2009, c. 441, § 64, eff. July 1, 2009.  Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 333.