Comptroller of the Treasury. The Department of Budget and Management shall confer
with the Department of Legislative Services regarding necessary or desirable changes
to the budget detail provided for fiscal 2001 due to implementation of the Budget
Preparation and Analysis System.

Further provided due diligence shall be taken to accurately report full-time
equivalent position counts of contractual positions in the budget books. For the
purpose of this count, contractual positions are defined as those individuals having an
employee-employer relationship with the State. This count should include those
individuals in higher education institutions who meet this definition but are paid
with additional assistance funds.

SECTION 23. AND BE it FURTHER ENACTED, That for fiscal 2001, capital
funds shall be budgeted in separate eight-digit programs. Furthermore, the budget
detail for fiscal 1999 and 2000 submitted with the fiscal 2001 budget shall be
organized in the same fashion to allow comparison between years.

SECTION 24. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the executive budget
books should include a forecast of the impact of the executive budget proposal on the
long-term fiscal condition of general fund. Transportation Trust Fund, and higher
education current unrestricted fund accounts. This forecast should estimate
aggregate revenues, expenditures and fund balances in each account for the fiscal
year last completed, the current year, the budget year, and four years thereafter.
Expenditures should be reported at such agency, program or unit levels or categories
as may be determined appropriate after consultation with the Department of
Legislative Services. A statement of major assumptions underlying the forecast shall
also be provided, including but not limited to general salary increases, inflation, and
growth of caseloads in significant program areas.

SECTION 25. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That immediately following
the close of fiscal 1999, the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management
shall determine the total number of full-time equivalent positions that are authorized
as of the last day of fiscal 1999 and on the first day of fiscal 2000. Authorized
positions shall include all positions authorized by the General Assembly in the
personnel detail of the budgets for fiscal 1999 and 2000 including non-budgetary
programs, the Mass Transit Administration, the University System of Maryland
self-supported activities, and the State Use Industries.

SECTION 26. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That executive budget books
shall include a summary statement of federal revenues by major federal program
source supporting the federal appropriations made therein along with the major
assumptions underpinning the federal fund estimates. In addition, the Department of
Budget and Management shall provide to the Department of Legislative Services data
for the actual, current, and budget years listing the components of each federal fund
appropriation by Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance number or equivalent
detail for programs not in the catalogue. Data shall be provided in an electronic
format subject to the concurrence of the Department of Legislative Services.

SECTION 27. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Department of
Budget and Management shall provide an annual report on indirect costs to the Joint