Chapter 143C State Budget Act
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Article 2 - Director of the Budget.
Article 3 - Development of the Governor's Recommended Budget.
- § 143C-3-1 Budget estimate for the legislative branch
The Legislative Services Officer shall give the Director an estimate of the financial needs of the legislative branch for the upcoming fiscal period in accordance...
- § 143C-3-2 Budget estimate for the judicial branch
The Administrative Officer of the Courts shall give the Director an estimate of the financial needs of the judicial branch for the upcoming fiscal period...
- § 143C-3-3 Budget requests from State agencies in the executive branch
(a) General Provisions. A State agency that is not in the legislative or judicial branch of government shall submit its budget requests for the upcoming...
- § 143C-3-4 Budget requests from non-State entities
Unless otherwise provided by law, budget requests from non‑State entities shall be submitted to the Director or to a State agency designated by the Director....
- § 143C-3-5 Budget recommendations and budget message
(a) Budget Proposals. The Governor shall present budget recommendations, consistent with G.S. 143C‑3‑1, 143C‑3‑2, and 143C‑3‑3 to each regular session of the General Assembly at...
Article 4 - Budget Requirements.
- § 143C-4-1 Annual balanced budget
The budget recommended by the Governor and the budget enacted by the General Assembly shall be balanced and shall include two fiscal years beginning on...
- § 143C-4-2 Savings Reserve Account and appropriation of General Fund unreserved fund balance
(a) Creation and Source of Funds. The Savings Reserve Account is established as a reserve in the General Fund. The Controller shall reserve to the...
- § 143C-4-3 Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account
(a) Creation and Source of Funds. The Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account is established as a reserve in the General Fund. The State Controller shall...
- § 143C-4-4 Contingency and Emergency Fund
(a) Creation. The Contingency and Emergency Fund is established within the General Fund. The General Assembly shall appropriate a specific amount to this fund for...
- § 143C-4-5 Non-State match restrictions
Whenever money is required to match an appropriation made for a specific purpose by the State of North Carolina, the recipient of the appropriation shall...
- § 143C-4-6 General Fund operating budget size limited
(a) Size Limitation. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the General Fund operating budget each fiscal year shall not be greater than seven percent...
- § 143C-4-7 Limit on number of permanent positions budgeted
The total number of permanent budgeted positions established in State agencies shall not be increased by the end of any State fiscal year by a...
Article 5 - Enactment of the Budget.
- § 143C-5-1 Rules for the introduction of the Governor's appropriations bills
The Current Operations Appropriations Act recommended by the Governor and the Capital Improvements Appropriations Act recommended by the Governor shall be introduced by the chairs...
- § 143C-5-2 Order of appropriations bills
Each house of the General Assembly shall first pass its version of the Current Operations Appropriations Act on third reading and order it sent to...
- § 143C-5-3 Availability statement required
The Current Operations Appropriations Act enacted by the General Assembly shall state the General Fund, Highway Fund, and Highway Trust Fund availability used as basis...
- § 143C-5-4 Enactment deadline
The General Assembly shall enact the Current Operations Appropriations Act by June 15 of odd‑numbered years and by June 30 of even‑numbered years in which...
- § 143C-5-5 Committee report used to construe intent of budget acts
A committee report incorporated by reference in the Current Operations Appropriations Act or the Capital Improvements Appropriations Act and distributed on the floor of the...
Article 6 - Administration of the Budget.
- § 143C-6-1 Budget enacted by the General Assembly; certified budgets of State agencies
(a) Governor to Administer the Budget as Enacted by the General Assembly. In accordance with Section 5(3) of Article III of the North Carolina Constitution,...
- § 143C-6-2 Methods to avoid deficit
(a) Appropriations. Each appropriation is maximum and conditional. The expenditures authorized by an appropriation from a fund shall be made only if necessary and only...
- § 143C-6-3 Allotments
To receive the operating funds appropriated to it, a State agency shall submit to the Director, at intervals and in a format prescribed by the...
- § 143C-6-4 Budget Adjustments Authorized
(a) Findings. The General Assembly recognizes that even the most thorough budget deliberations may be affected by unforeseeable events. Under limited circumstances set forth in...
- § 143C-6-5 No expenditures for purposes for which the General Assembly has considered but not enacted an appropriation; no fee increases that the General Assembly has rejected
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds from any source, except for gifts, grants, or funds allocated from the Repair and Renovations Account...
- § 143C-6-6 Positions included in the State Payroll
(a) Before a State agency establishes a new position or changes the funding of an existing position, the agency shall submit the proposed action to...
- § 143C-6-7 Compliance with Chapter and appropriations acts by State agencies
(a) Compliance With Chapter and Appropriations Acts. Except as otherwise provided by law, all expenditures of State funds by a State agency shall be made...
- § 143C-6-8 State agencies may incur financial obligations only if authorized by the Director of the Budget and subject to the availability of appropriated funds
Unless otherwise authorized by the Director as provided by law, purchase orders, contracts, salary commitments, and any other financial obligations by State agencies shall be...
- § 143C-6-9 Use of lapsed salary savings
Lapsed salary savings may be expended only for nonrecurring purposes or line items. (2006‑203, s. 3.)
- § 143C-6-10 Flexible compensation plan
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director may establish a program of dependent care assistance and a flexible compensation plan for eligible officers and...
- § 143C-6-11 Highway appropriation
(a) General Provisions. Appropriations made for transportation projects are subject to the provisions in this section. If the provisions in this section conflict with the...
- § 143C-6-12 through 143C-6-20 Reserved for future codification purposes
- § 143C-6-21 Payments to nonprofits
Except as otherwise provided by law, an annual appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or less to or for the use of a nonprofit...
- § 143C-6-22 Use of State funds by non-State entities
(a) Disbursement and Use of State Funds. Every non‑State entity that receives, uses, or expends any State funds shall use or expend the funds only...
- § 143C-6-23 State grant funds: administration; oversight and reporting requirements
(a) Definitions. The following definitions apply in this section: (1) (Effective until July 1, 2008) "Grant" and "grant funds" means State funds disbursed as a...
Article 7 - Federal and Other Receipts.
- § 143C-7-1 Funds creating an obligation
(a) Report to Director. A State agency, other than the judicial branch, that submits to the federal government or to any other party an application...
- § 143C-7-2 Federal Block Grants
(a) Plans Submitted and Reviewed. The Secretary of each State agency that receives and administers federal Block Grant funds shall prepare and submit the agency's...
Article 8 - Budgeting Capital Improvement Projects.
Article 9 - Special Funds and Fee Reports.
- § 143C-9-1 Medicaid Special Fund; transfers to Department of Health and Human Services
(a) The Medicaid Special Fund is established as a nonreverting special fund in the Department of Health and Human Services. The Medicaid Special Fund shall...
- § 143C-9-2 Trust Fund for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and Bridge Funding Needs
(a) The Trust Fund for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and Bridge Funding Needs is established as an interest‑bearing, nonreverting special trust...
- § 143C-9-3 Settlement Reserve Fund
(a) The "Settlement Reserve Fund" is established as a restricted reserve in the General Fund. Except as otherwise provided in this section, funds shall be...
- § 143C-9-4 Biennial fee report
The Office of State Budget and Management shall prepare a report biennially on the fees charged by each State department, bureau, division, board, commission, institution,...
- § 143C-9-5 Assignment to the State of rights to tobacco manufacturer escrow funds
A tobacco product manufacturer that elects to place funds into escrow pursuant to G.S. 66‑291(a)(2) may make an assignment of its interest in the funds...
- § 143C-9-6 JDIG Reserve Fund
(a) The State Controller shall establish a reserve in the General Fund to be known as the JDIG Reserve. Funds from the JDIG Reserve shall...
Article 10 - Penalties.
