MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1127

istrative control over the operations and functions of his Division,
subject to the policies and directives of the joint budget and audit
committee and of the Director of the Department of Fiscal Services;
and each shall devote full time to the duties of his position.

60.

The Division of Budget Review is created within the Department
of Fiscal Services. It shall give intensive study and review to the
State budget, during all stages of its proposal and consideration;
and the Division continuously shall analyze, evaluate, and test the
budgetary requests and appropriations of the several departments,
boards, bureaus, commissions, or other agencies which are included
in or considered in relation to the budget. It shall engage in con-
tinuing study and research into the taxes, finances, and fiscal prob-
lems and matters which relate to or affect the budget. The Division
shall give continuing study and analysis to financial policies of and
grants from the federal government and other agencies, public and
private, as they affect or concern budgetary matters of this State.
It shall study and evaluate the programs and activities of each
department, board, bureau, commission, or other agency of the
State, in relation to its actual or proposed expenditures of public
monies. It shall (1) review in detail the matters to appear in the
budget prior to the convening of each regular session of the General
Assembly and be prepared to report to the members of the General
Assembly each agency's justification for each item or program
appearing in the budget; (2) call attention to proposed new services
or functions appearing in the budget; (3) point out items in the
budget which previously have been denied by the General Assembly;
(4) conduct organizational and management improvement studies
consistent with responsibilities assigned to the joint budget and
audit committee; (5) [prepare cost estimates of proposed appro-
priation bills; (6)] propose statutory changes to effect operational
economies or effective administration; [(7)] (6) prepare, after each
session of the General Assembly, a summary of the effect of the
legislative program on the financial condition of the State; [(8)] (7)
study, in conjunction or by agreement with the Division of Fiscal
Research, financial and other problems and matters of the State
government; and [(9)] (8) generally review and study all State
problems and matters, whether or not of direct budgetary concern,
which relate to the operation of the State government and its effi-
cient and effective operation. The Division also shall give such study
and review to, and shall analyze, evaluate, and test, the requests
and proposals of all State agencies for inclusion in the capital
expense budget and to all requests for capital improvements to be
financed by the State.

61B.

(f) From time to time the Comptroller, on the basis of audit
reports submitted to him, shall IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO
require the several offices and agencies of the State to comply with
accounting directives issued by his office and recommendations made
by the Legislative Auditor and the Joint Budget and Audit Com-
mittee.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Section 9C of Article 64A
of the said Code (1968 Replacement Volume), title "Merit System,"