LBB New Guidance on LARs. 10 New items.

LBB Issued new Guidance to Agencies on their Legislative Appropriation Requests (LARs). The new LAR items:

• New: Budget Overview Schedule. No new data, just a new format with a concise overview
• New: Program-Level Request Schedule. Contrasts previous bienium expenditures with request
• New: Summary of Behavioral Health Funding Schedule.  List behavioral health or substance abuse services expenditures
• Deleted: Budgetary Impacts Related to Federal Health Care Reform and the Budget Control Act 
• Administrator’s Statement concerning the mandated 4% cut
• Exceptional Item Request Schedule 4.A: Information Technology.  Specifically if there is an IT contract or contracts with outside entities from amounts in excess of $50,000. 
• Ten Percent Biennial Base Reduction Options. reduction options should also include estimates of any losses in revenue, including Federal Funds, as part of the agency’s impact statement within the schedule.
• Transferred Programs.  Agencies receiving a transferred program or function should not re-enter historical expenditures for a transferred program 
• Schedule 3.A. Strategy Request. More specifics required to justify a biennial change
• Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) –  include all ongoing costs to support and maintain their systems.

LARs are due to LBB in August. 

LBB | Updated 2018-19 agency CAPPS listing on page 45 of the LAR Instructions